Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fan...

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

15,00 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Kategorien:

Der Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache verfasst.
Die Sprache der Produktbeschreibung und Details kann in Englisch angegeben sein. Sollten Sie Verständnisprobleme haben, wenden Sie sich gerne an uns.

Beschreibung

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form.

A look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance of The College Dropout (2004) to the operatic narcissism of MBDTF, tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. In a cloud-based and on-demand culture - a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity - West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels of The Atlantic calls "the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music." In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king.

Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future - very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity - MBDTF is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era's most dynamic artist.

Über den Autor

Kirk Walker Graves is a writer from Tennessee at work on his first novel. A graduate of Princeton University, he lives with his wife and son in Nashville.

Zusammenfassung

Looks at West's entire artistic output (video, fashion, tweets) leading up to and including My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Seven Virtues of Yeezus, Pop Christ
Portrait of the Monster as a Young Masterpiece
The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time
Five Uneasy Pieces
Art as Atonement University as Universe: The College Dropout
A (Very) Brief Aside Re: 808s & Heartbreaks

MBDTF

Dark Fantasy
Gorgeous
POWER (sic transit gloria Kanye)
All of the Lights
Monster
So Appalled
Devil in a New Dress
Runaway
Hell of a Life
Blame Game
Lost in the World
The Yeezus Singularity: A Religion of the Self

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Biographien & Monographien
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781623565428
ISBN-10:	1623565421
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Graves, Kirk Walker
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	165 x 123 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Kirk Walker Graves
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.06.2014
Gewicht:	0,15 kg