Mute Records : artists, business, history / edited by Zuleika Beaven, Marcus O'Dair and Richard Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaven, Zuleika, editor.

O'Dair, Marcus, editor.

Osborne, Richard, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mute (Record label).

Electronica (Music)--History and criticism.

Electronica (Music).

Noise music--History and criticism.

Noise music.

Alternative rock music--History and criticism.

Alternative rock music.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Contents:

1 'Let's Make Love Before You Die': 'Warm Leatherette', Boredom and the Invention of the 1980s p. 15 / S. Alexander Reed

2 'One Man's Meat': Fad Gadget's Social Commentary and Post-Punk p. 31 / Giuseppe Zevolli

3 Depeche Mode and Soft Cell: Redefining the Synth-Pop Prologue p. 47 / Leon Clowes

4 Fans of Faith and Devotion: Obsession, Nostalgia and Depeche Mode p. 59 / Andy Pope

5 Throbbing Gristle's Early Records: Post-Hippie/Pre-Punk/Post-Punk p. 71 / John Encarnacao

6 'Join That Troubled Chorus': Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds and the Blues p. 87 / Ross Cole

7 Mark Stewart, 'Somewhere' p. 101 / Edward George

8 'Sometimes, Always': Erasure, Mute and the Value of Independence p. 113 / Brenda Kelly

9 Outside Mute? Ut, No Wave and Blast First p. 127 / Ieuan Franklin

10 The Mash-Up of Aesthetics, Theory and Politics in Laibach's Meta-Sound p. 141 / Aténé Mendelyté

11 The Blessed Glow of Labour: Independence, Style and Process in the Music of Swans p. 155 / Dean Lockwood

12 Moby, Minstrelsy and Melville p. 169 / Richard Osborne

13 Country Girl: Rural Feminism in the Performance of Alison Goldfrapp p. 183 / Lucy O'Brien

14 Twist: Goldfrapp's Genre Perversion p. 197 / Glyn Davis

15 Area: Mute's Mutant p. 209 / Michael Waugh

16 Composing in Circuitry: Sonic Artist Dirty Electronics p. 223 / Lourdes Nicole Crosby García.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501340604

1501340603

OCLC:

1050455720