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Blackstar Theory - The Last Works Of David Bowie

by Leah Kardos

27,41€ + 10% CARD

 Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie''s ambitious last works: his surprise ''comeback'' project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist''s death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon. These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.
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Blackstar Theory - The Last Works Of David Bowie

by Leah Kardos

27,41€ + 10% CARD

 Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie''s ambitious last works: his surprise ''comeback'' project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist''s death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon. These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.
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Dark Sound - Feminine Voices In Sonic Shadow

by D Ferrett

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 Dark sound carries the dense cultural weight of darkness; it is the undertow of music that embodies melancholy, desire, grief, violence, rage, pain, loss and longing. Compelling and unnerving, dark sound immerses bodies in the darkest moments and delves into the depths of our hidden inner selves. There is a strangely perverse appeal about music that conjures intense affective states and about sound that can move its listeners to the very edge of the sayable. Through a series of case studies that include Moor Mother, Anna Calvi, Björk, Chelsea Wolfe and Diamanda Galás, D Ferrett argues that the extreme limits and transgressions of dark sound not only imply the limits of language, but are moreover tied to a cultural and historical association between darkness and the feminine within music and music discourse. Whilst the oppressive and violent associations between darkness and femininity are acknowledged, the author challenges their value to misogynistic, racist, capitalist and patriarchal power, showing how dark sound is charged with social, creative and political momentum.
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Dark Sound - Feminine Voices In Sonic Shadow

by D Ferrett

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 Dark sound carries the dense cultural weight of darkness; it is the undertow of music that embodies melancholy, desire, grief, violence, rage, pain, loss and longing. Compelling and unnerving, dark sound immerses bodies in the darkest moments and delves into the depths of our hidden inner selves. There is a strangely perverse appeal about music that conjures intense affective states and about sound that can move its listeners to the very edge of the sayable. Through a series of case studies that include Moor Mother, Anna Calvi, Björk, Chelsea Wolfe and Diamanda Galás, D Ferrett argues that the extreme limits and transgressions of dark sound not only imply the limits of language, but are moreover tied to a cultural and historical association between darkness and the feminine within music and music discourse. Whilst the oppressive and violent associations between darkness and femininity are acknowledged, the author challenges their value to misogynistic, racist, capitalist and patriarchal power, showing how dark sound is charged with social, creative and political momentum.
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Scott Walker And The Song Of The One-All-Alone

by Scott Wilson

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 Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone offers, in detailed interpretative commentaries of his best songs, a sustained assessment of the work and career of Scott Walker, one of the most significant and perplexing artists of the late 20th and 21st century. For Brian Eno, Walker was not only a great composer and a superlative lyricist but also a significant contemporary poet. Marc Almond goes further, ''an absolute musical genius, existential and intellectual and a star right from the days of The Walker Brothers''. As Almond suggests, Walker''s work is marked by a continual engagement with existentialist philosophy informing his approach to art, politics and life. In particular, the device of the solitary figure or ''one-all-alone'' evoked in his songs provides the basis for his lyrical exploration of the singularity of existence - in all its darkness as well as light. Through following his own path, Walker arrived at a unique sound according to his own method that produced a genuinely new form of song. Looking closely at these songs, this book also considers the wider political implications of his approach in its rejection of external authorities and common or consensual ideals.
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Scott Walker And The Song Of The One-All-Alone

by Scott Wilson

33,38€ + 10% CARD

 Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone offers, in detailed interpretative commentaries of his best songs, a sustained assessment of the work and career of Scott Walker, one of the most significant and perplexing artists of the late 20th and 21st century. For Brian Eno, Walker was not only a great composer and a superlative lyricist but also a significant contemporary poet. Marc Almond goes further, ''an absolute musical genius, existential and intellectual and a star right from the days of The Walker Brothers''. As Almond suggests, Walker''s work is marked by a continual engagement with existentialist philosophy informing his approach to art, politics and life. In particular, the device of the solitary figure or ''one-all-alone'' evoked in his songs provides the basis for his lyrical exploration of the singularity of existence - in all its darkness as well as light. Through following his own path, Walker arrived at a unique sound according to his own method that produced a genuinely new form of song. Looking closely at these songs, this book also considers the wider political implications of his approach in its rejection of external authorities and common or consensual ideals.
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Dark Sound - Feminine Voices In Sonic Shadow

by D (Falmouth University, Uk) Ferrett

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 "This book examines the concept of 'dark sound', a strand of contemporary music that links the ideas of death, desire and violence with women's and gender studies"--
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Gallery Sound

by Caleb Kelly

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 Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art exhibitions through an array of sound making works in various art forms, at times played to very high audio levels. However, works of art are far from the only thing one might hear: music performances, floor talks, exhibition openings and the noisy background sounds that emanate from the gallery café fill contemporary exhibition environments. Far from being hallowed spaces of quiet reflection, what this means is that galleries have swiftly become very noisy places. As such, a straightforward consideration of artworks alone can then no longer account for our experiences of art galleries and museums. To date there has been minimal scholarship directed towards the intricacies of our experiences of sound that occur within the bounds of this purportedly ''visual'' art space. Kelly addresses this gap in knowledge through the examination of historical and contemporary sound in gallery environments, broadening our understanding of artists who work with sound, the institutions that exhibit these works, and the audiences that visit them. Gallery Sound argues for the importance of all of the sounds to be heard within the walls of art spaces, and in doing so listens not only to the deliberate inclusion of sound within the art gallery in the form of artworks, performances, and music, but also to its incidental sounds, such as their ambient sounds and the noise generated by audiences. More than this, however, Gallery Sound turns its attention to the ways in which the acoustic characteristics specific to gallery spaces have been mined by artists for creative outputs, ushering in entirely new art forms.
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Gallery Sound

by Caleb Kelly

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art exhibitions through an array of sound making works in various art forms, at times played to very high audio levels. However, works of art are far from the only thing one might hear: music performances, floor talks, exhibition openings and the noisy background sounds that emanate from the gallery café fill contemporary exhibition environments. Far from being hallowed spaces of quiet reflection, what this means is that galleries have swiftly become very noisy places. As such, a straightforward consideration of artworks alone can then no longer account for our experiences of art galleries and museums. To date there has been minimal scholarship directed towards the intricacies of our experiences of sound that occur within the bounds of this purportedly ''visual'' art space. Kelly addresses this gap in knowledge through the examination of historical and contemporary sound in gallery environments, broadening our understanding of artists who work with sound, the institutions that exhibit these works, and the audiences that visit them. Gallery Sound argues for the importance of all of the sounds to be heard within the walls of art spaces, and in doing so listens not only to the deliberate inclusion of sound within the art gallery in the form of artworks, performances, and music, but also to its incidental sounds, such as their ambient sounds and the noise generated by audiences. More than this, however, Gallery Sound turns its attention to the ways in which the acoustic characteristics specific to gallery spaces have been mined by artists for creative outputs, ushering in entirely new art forms.
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Philippe Grandrieux - Sonic Cinema

by Greg Hainge

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 Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema''s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work remains, however, relatively unknown outside of the international art film festival circuit. In this volume, the first book-length study of the work of Grandrieux in any language, Greg Hainge provides an overview and critical analysis of Grandrieux''s entire career during which he has produced works for television, video installations, photography, performance pieces, documentary films, short films and prize-winning feature films. As well as providing an overview, the book argues that a critical appraisal of his work necessarily leads us to problematize many of the critical orthodoxies that have been formed in recent times, to reject the concept of a haptic cinema and to supplant this instead with the idea of a sonic cinema.
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Philippe Grandrieux - Sonic Cinema

by Greg Hainge

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema''s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work remains, however, relatively unknown outside of the international art film festival circuit. In this volume, the first book-length study of the work of Grandrieux in any language, Greg Hainge provides an overview and critical analysis of Grandrieux''s entire career during which he has produced works for television, video installations, photography, performance pieces, documentary films, short films and prize-winning feature films. As well as providing an overview, the book argues that a critical appraisal of his work necessarily leads us to problematize many of the critical orthodoxies that have been formed in recent times, to reject the concept of a haptic cinema and to supplant this instead with the idea of a sonic cinema.
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Scott Walker And The Song Of The One-All-Alone

by Professor Scott (Kingston University, London, Uk) Wilson

37,84€ + 10% CARD

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Blackstar Theory - The Last Works Of David Bowie

by Dr. Leah (Senior Lecturer In Music, Kingston University London, Uk) Kardos

31,08€ + 10% CARD

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Mcad Sculpture And The Decorative I - Seventeenth Century To Contemporary

by Hart Imogen

162,23€ + 10% CARD

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Philippe Grandrieux - Sonic Cinema

by Associate Professor Greg (University Of Queensland, Australia) Hainge

202,78€ + 10% CARD

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History Of Furniture - A Global View

by Mark (University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Usa) Hinchman

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Dark Sound - Feminine Voices In Sonic Shadow

by D (Falmouth University, Uk) Ferrett

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Beckett, Lacan And The Mathematical Writing Of The Real

by Arka (Indian Institute Of Technology, Gandhinagar, India) Chattopadhyay

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Mute Records - Artists, Business, History

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Music Radio - Building Communities, Mediating Genres

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Gallery Sound

by Caleb (University Of New South Wales, Australia) Kelly

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Hollywood Online - Internet Movie Marketing Before And After The Blair Witch Project

by Dr. Ian (Independent Scholar, Uk) London

111,24€

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The French Film Musical

by Marie (Jean Perrin A Saint-Ouen-Lâ€™Aumone, France) Cadalanu e Phil (University Of Surrey, Uk) Powrie

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 "A history of the French film musical from 1929 to the present"--
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Women'S Cinema In Contemporary Portugal

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 "Shows how women film directors in Portugal have made a significant and highly distinctive gender mark on the emergence of Portuguese cinema, both nationally following the 1974 Revolution and African decolonisation, and increasingly internationally, on the art cinema and festival circuit, in the last four decades"--
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