The Music and Art of Radiohead (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

The Music and Art of Radiohead provides compelling close readings of the English band's music, lyrics, album cover art and music videos as well as critical commentary on interviews, reviews and the documentary film Meeting People is Easy. Established and emerging academic scholars engage with Radiohead's music and art via concerns of broader implication to contemporary cultural studies. Topics range from the band's various musical and multivalent social contexts to their contested situation within a global market economy; from asking the question, 'how free is art?' to considering the band's musical influences and radical sonic explorations. Together, the essays form a comprehensive discussion of Radiohead's entire oeuvre, from Pablo Honey to Hail to the Thief, with a special focus on the critically acclaimed best-selling albums Kid A and Amnesiac. The Music And Art Of Radiohead Provides Close Readings Of The English Band's Music, Lyrics, Album Cover Art And Music Videos As Well As Critical Commentary On Interviews, Reviews And The Documentary Film Meeting People Is Easy. Established And Emerging Academic Scholars Engage With Radiohead's Music And Art Via Concerns Of Broader Implication To Contemporary Cultural Studies. Topics Range From The Band's Various Musical And Multivalent Social Contexts To Their Contested Situation Within A Global Market Economy; From Asking The Question, 'how Free Is Art?' To Considering The Band's Musical Influences And Radical Sonic Explorations. Together, The Essays Form A Comprehensive Discussion Of Radiohead's Entire Oeuvre, From Pablo Honey To Hail To The Thief, With A Special Focus On The Critically Acclaimed Best-selling Albums Kid A And Amnesiac.--jacket. Kid Adorno / Curtis White -- 'we Got Heads On Sticks/you Got Ventriloquists' : Radiohead And The Improbability Of Resistance / Davis Schneiderman -- The Aura Of Authenticity : Perceptions Of Honesty, Sincerity, And Truth In Creep And Kid A / Carys Wyn Jones -- Radiohead And The Negation Of Gender / Erin Harde -- To(rt)uring The Minotaur : Radiohead, Pop, Unnatural Couplings, And Mainstream Subversion / Greg Hainge -- Ice Age Coming : The Apocalyptic Sublime In The Paintings Of Stanley Donwood / Lisa Leblanc -- Radiohead's Antivideos : Works Of Art In The Age Of Electronic Reproduction / Joseph Tate -- Deforming Rock : Radiohead's Plunge Into The Sonic Continuum / Mark B.n. Hansen -- Sounds Like Teen Spirit : Identifying Radiohead's Idiolect / Allan F. Moore And Anwar Ibrahim -- Public Schoolboy Music : Debating Radiohead / Dai Griffiths -- My Radiohead Adventure / Paul Lansky -- Hail To The Thief : A Rhizomatic Map In Fragments / Joseph Tate. Edited By Joseph Tate. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [198]-205) And Index. Cover Half Title Dedication Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors General Editor’s Preface Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Kid Adorno 2 ‘We got Heads on Sticks / You got Ventriloquists’: Radiohead and the Improbability of Resistance 3 The Aura of Authenticity: Perceptions of Honesty, Sincerity, and Truth in ‘Creep’ and ‘Kid A’ 4 Radiohead and the Negation of Gender 5 To(rt)uring the Minotaur: Radiohead, Pop, Unnatural Couplings, and Mainstream Subversion 6 ‘Ice Age Coming’: Apocalypse, the Sublime, and the Paintings of Stanley Donwood 7 Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction 8 Deforming Rock: Radiohead’s Plunge into the Sonic Continuum 9 ‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit’: Identifying Radiohead’s Idiolect 10 Public Schoolboy Music: Debating Radiohead 11 My Radiohead Adventure 12 Hail to the Thief: A Rhizomatic Map in Fragments Bibliography Track Listing Index Kid Adorno / Curtis White "We got heads on sticks/you got ventriloquists" : Radiohead and the improbability of resistance / Davis Schneiderman The aura of authenticity : perceptions of honesty, sincerity and truth in "Creep" and "Kid A." / Carys Wyn Jones Radiohead and the negation of gender / Erin Harde To(rt)uring the Minotaur : Radiohead, pop, unnatural couplings and mainstream subversion / Greg Hainge Ice age coming : apocalypse the sublime, and the paintings of Stanley Donwood / Lisa Leblanc Radiohead's antivideos : works of art in the age of electronic reproduction / Joseph Tate Deforming rock : Radiohead's plunge into the sonic continuum / Mark Hansen "Sounds like teen spirit" : identifying Radiohead's idiolect / Allan F. Moore and Anwar Ibrahim Public school boy music : debating Radiohead / Dai Griffiths My Radiohead adventure / Paul Lansky Hail to the thief : a rhizomatic map in fragments / Joseph Tate.