Victor Szabo (Elliott Assista Elliott Assistant Professor of Music

Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off

Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past

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Produktbeschreibung

Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off explores the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic counterculture. It examines landmark psychedelic, new age, electronic dance, and ambient records, as well as related media discourses, that plotted the conventions of ambient music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780190699314
• ISBN-10: 0190699310
• Artikelnr.: 66133680

Autorenporträt

Victor Szabo is Elliott Assistant Professor of Music at Hampden-Sydney College. His work broadly addresses the socioaesthetics of 20th and 21st century popular and electronic music, with special focus on queer and countercultural topics, as well as on the cultural politics of taste, emotion, and mood. He is also a DJ, film buff, and cocktail enthusiast.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: Highs for Highbrows? How We Got from Head Music to
Ambient Music
* Chapter 1: Inside Environments's Psychedelic "Psychological Sound"
* Chapter 2: Pacifica Radio's Music from the Hearts of Space and the
Spacious Sound of California's New Age
* Chapter 3: Brian Eno's Ambivalent Ambiences
* Chapter 4: Ambient EDM, or Dance Music That Isn't Dance Music!
* Coda
* Bibliography
* Selected Discography
* Index