Simon A Morrison: Roxy Music's Avalon

Cover: 9781501355349 | Roxy Music's Avalon | Simon A Morrison | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2021

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Beschreibung

Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ways with Eno, electric violinist Eddie Jobson, and drummer Paul Thompson, foreswearing the broken-sounding synthesizers played by kitchen utensils, the chance-based elements, and the maquillage of previous albums.

The production and engineering imposed on Avalon confiscates emotion and replaces it with an acoustic simulacrum of courtliness, polished manners, and codes of etiquette. The seducer sings seductive music about seduction, but decorum is retained, as amour courtois insists.

The backbeat cannot beat back nostalgia; it remains part of the architecture of Avalon, an album that creates an allusive sheen. Be nostalgic, by all means, but embrace that feeling's falseness, because nostalgia-whether inspired by medieval Arthuriana or 1940s film noir repartee or a 1980s drug-induced high-deceives. Nostalgia defines our fantasies and our (not Ferry's) essential artifice.

Über den Autor

Simon Morrison is a music historian specializing in 20th-century music. He is the author of Bolshoi Confidential (2016) and Lina and Serge (2013). The latter was featured on BBC Radio 4 (as "Book of the Week"), BBC World News (TV), and WYNC. He was written the New York Times, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, the TLS, and Time.

Zusammenfassung

Roxy Music has disbanded, but Bryan Ferry still tours twice a year, and the author has developed an excellent rapport with him.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. On Modernism
2. On Avalon
3. The High Road
4. The After-Party
NotesBibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Biographien & Monographien
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781501355349
ISBN-10:	1501355341
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Morrison, Simon A
Hersteller:	Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Maße:	161 x 117 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Simon A Morrison
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.05.2021
Gewicht:	0,168 kg