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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"Mute Records is one of the most influential, commercially successful, and long-lasting of the British independent record labels formed in the wake of the late-1970's punk explosion. Yet, in comparison with contemporaries such as Rough Trade or Stiff, its legacy remains under-explored. This edited collection addresses Mute's wide-ranging impact. Drawing from disciplines such as popular music studies, musicology, and fan studies, it takes a distinctive, artist-led approach, outlining the history of the label by focusing each chapter on one of its acts. The book covers key moments in the company's evolution, from the first releases by The Normal and Fad Gadget to recent work by Arca and Dirty Electronics. It shines new light on the most successful Mute artists, including Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Erasure, Moby, and Goldfrapp, while also exploring the label's avant-garde innovators, such as Throbbing Gristle, Mark Stewart, Labaich, Ut, and Swans. Mute Records examines the business and aesthetics of independence through the lens of the label's artists."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of plates

List of figures

Permissions

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mute Records / Richard Osborne and Zuleika Beaven

1. 'Let's make love before you die': 'Warm leatherette', Boredom and the invention of the 1980s / S. Alexander Reed, Ithaca College, USA

2. 'One man's meat': Fad Gadget's social commentary and post-punk / Giuseppe Zevolli, King's College, UK

3. Fans of faith and devotion: obsession, nostalgia and Depeche Mode / Andy Pope, Independent Researcher

4. Depeche Mode and Soft Cell: redefining the prologue of the Mute and some bizzare record labels / Leon Clowes, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

5. Throbbing Gristle's early records: post-hippie/pre-punk/post-punk / John Encarnacao, Western Sydney University, Australia

6. 'Join that troubled chorus': Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds, and the blues / Ross Cole, University of Cambridge, UK

7. Mark Stewart: 'Somewhere' / Eddie George, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

8. 'Sometimes, always': erasure, Mute and the value of independence / Brenda Kelly, Independent Researcher

9. Outside Mute? Ut, No Wave and Blast First / Ieuan Franklin, Bournemouth University, UK

10. The mash-up of aesthetics, theory and politics in Laibach's meta-sound / Aténé Mendelyté, Lund University, Sweden

11. 'The blessed glow of labour': independence, style and process in the music of Swans / Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln, UK

12. Moby, minstrelsy and Melville / Richard Osborne, Middlesex University, UK

13. 'Country girl': rural feminism in the performance of Alison Goldfrapp / Lucy O'Brien, University of the Creative Arts, UK

14. Twist: Goldfrapp's genre perversion / Glyn Davis, University of Edinburgh, UK

15. Arca: Mute's mutant / Mark Waugh, Anglia University, UK

16. Composing in circuitry: sonic artist dirty electronics / Lourdes N. Crosby García, Full Sail University, USA

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501340635

1501340638

9781501340628

150134062X

9781501340611

1501340611

OCLC:

1098037102