Portishead's Dummy
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2011
248 pages
978-1-4411-8557-0 (ISBN)
Description
An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together interviews, impressions of time and place, cultural criticism, and a thorough exploration of the music itself.
The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age.
The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-8557-0 (9781441185570)
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R.J. Wheaton
Portishead's Dummy
Book
10/2011
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Person
RJ Wheaton's writing on music, film, and literature has been published in The Oxford American, DaCapo's Best Music Writing series, and at PopMatters.com, where he is Senior Producer. He currently lives in Toronto.
Content
Dramatis Personae
1. From the Ether
2. Memory
3. Shock
4. Intimacy
5. Solitude
6. Narcotic
7. Alienation
8. Solace
9. Resonance
10. Loss
11. Siren
Works cited
1. From the Ether
2. Memory
3. Shock
4. Intimacy
5. Solitude
6. Narcotic
7. Alienation
8. Solace
9. Resonance
10. Loss
11. Siren
Works cited
