''The Music and Art of Radiohead'' is a collection of academic essays on the band
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass ...
edited by Joseph Tate. It was published in May 2005 by Ashgate Publishing in their ''Popular and Folk Music Series'' (). It's one of "only a handful of academic studies" devoted to the band's work.
Content
The book contains discussion of Radiohead's music by both established and emerging academics in the context of contemporary cultural studies. It explores topics such as their position within a global market economy and their musical influences and "radical sonic explorations".
Table of contents
*Preface by Kevin J. H. Dettmar,
Pomona College
Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became t ...
*Introduction: The Music and Art of Radiohead by Joseph Tate,
University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.
Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seatt ...
*"Kid Adorno" by
Curtis White, Illinois State University
*"'We got Heads on Sticks/You got Ventriloquists': Radiohead and the Improbability of Resistance" by
Davis Schneiderman
Davis Schneiderman (born 1974) is an American writer, academic, and higher-education administrator. He is a professor of English and Krebs Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Lake Forest College in Illinois. Prior to that appointment, he served as ...
, Lake Forest College
*"The Aura of Authenticity: Perceptions of Honesty, Sincerity and Truth in ‘Creep’ and ‘Kid A'" by Carys Wyn Jones,
Cardiff
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University
*"Radiohead and the Negation of Gender" by Erin Harde, University of Western Ontario
*"To(rt)uring the Minotaur: Radiohead, Pop, Unnatural Couplings and Mainstream Subversion" by Greg Hainge,
University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public research university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. The university's main campus is located on N ...
*"Ice Age Coming: The Apocalyptic Sublime in the Paintings of
Stanley Donwood
Dan Rickwood (born 29 October 1968), known professionally as Stanley Donwood, is an English artist and writer. Since 1994, he has created all the artwork for the rock band Radiohead with their singer Thom Yorke, plus Yorke's other projects. He ...
" by Lisa Leblanc, Canadian Museum of Civilization
*"Radiohead's Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction" by Joseph Tate, University of Washington
*"Deforming Rock: Radiohead’s Plunge into the Sonic Continuum" by Mark Hansen,
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
*"Public School Boy Music: Debating Radiohead" by Dai Griffiths, Oxford Brookes University
*"'Sounds Like Teen Spirit': Identifying Radiohead's Idiolect" by Allan Moore and Anwar Ibrahim,
University of Surrey
The University of Surrey is a public research university in Guildford, Surrey, England. The university received its royal charter in 1966, along with a number of other institutions following recommendations in the Robbins Report. The institu ...
*"My Radiohead Adventure" by
Paul Lansky
Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American composer.
Biography
Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studying wit ...
, Princeton University
*"''Hail to the Thief'': A Rhizomatic Map in Fragments" by Joseph Tate, University of Washington
Reception
''Popular Music'' reviewed the work, commenting that although the book had weak notes it was still a "worthwhile venture". The ''
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'' also wrote a review, noting that Radiohead's members "are averse to any sort of intellectualizing of their music" and that "If, in the end, what Radiohead does is "pure escapism," as drummer Phil Selway deems, then this book deconstructs not only that aesthetic space he claims they create, but also the very means by which the fans who wish to escape are drawn in."
References
External links
Link to the Intro at Ashgate
2005 non-fiction books
Books on English music
Books about rock musicians
Radiohead
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