Introduction: Brian Eno: A problem of organization - David Pattie and Sean Albiez PART ONE - Eno: Composer, musician and theorist 1 The Bogus Men: Eno, Ferry and Roxy Music - David Pattie 2 Brian Eno, non- musicianship and the experimental tradition - Cecilia Sun 3 Taking the studio by strategy- David Pattie 4 Between the avant- garde and the popular: The discursive economy of Brian Eno’s musical practices - Chris Atton 5 Yes, but is it music? Brian Eno and the definition of ambient music - Mark Edward Achtermann 6 The Lovely Bones: Music from beyond - Hillegonda C. Rietveld 7 The voice and/of Brian Eno - Sean Albiez PART TWO - The University of Eno: Production and collaborations 8 Before and after Eno: Situating ‘The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool’ - Sean Albiez and Ruth Dockwray 9 Control and surrender: Eno remixed – collaboration and Oblique Strategies - Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell 10 Avant-gardism, ‘Africa’ and appropriation in My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Elizabeth Ann Lindau 11 Eno and Devo - Jonathan Stewart 12 Another Green World? Eno, Ireland and U2 - Noel McLaughlin 13 Documenting no wave: Brian Eno as urban ethnographer - Martin James Select Discography
This collection examines Brian Eno's music, working practices, and artistic collaborations, from his genre-defining Ambient albums to his work with U2 and others.
Sean Albiez is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton Solent University, UK David Pattie is Professor in Drama in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Chester, UK.
Specialists in English, media, film and television have also been
invited to take part in this conversation, which feels authentic to
the spirit of Eno ... The book mulls over those necessary questions
that anyone thinking about Eno must eventually face.
*The Wire*
Contributions include meticulous descriptions of compositions; a
chapter about Eno’s ambient oeuvre (which quirkily compares him to
Tolkien at great length) ... Albiez contributes to the best piece
on precursors to Eno’s use of the studio to create new sounds. ...
Intellectually stimulating.
*Record Collector*
The collection’s standouts are Martin James’ pithy, pacy account of
Eno’s years in New York (1978-84) … and Hillegonda Rietveld’s
coolly attentive reading of the soundtrack to the film The Lovely
Bones, in which his “oblique music seems like a ghostly call from
the ‘in-between’”.
*Times Higher Education*
For quite some time, Brian Eno has been jokingly referred to as the
‘professor of pop’. It’s about time, then, that real academics
caught up with a body of work that is as perplexing as it is
complex. ... Essential reading for all academic listeners.
*Times Higher Education ('What are you reading?')*
This much needed book explores the many trajectories of Eno’s
varied career, and it will engage and excite any music lover,
regardless of your opinion of Eno’s work. It’s a richly rewarding
collection that deftly explores and unpacks the work of one of
popular music’s pioneering figures. ... Oblique Music does an
outstanding job of critically capturing both the well-known and
less familiar elements of Eno’s work ... [It] provides some
thought-provoking material on broader issues such as collaboration,
composition, creativity, experimentation, musicianship, technology
and more, and as such will stimulate the interest of anyone engaged
in music creation and production. This is a book that you will
return to time and again — like Eno’s best work, its rewards make
themselves most evident after repeated visits.
*Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture*
Meticulously written, rich in detail and factually argued ...
Anyone who wants to know Eno from the beginning, to understand his
experimental strategies in the studio or to study his eternal
movement between pop music and free sound, will not be
disappointed.
*Groove (Bloomsbury translation)*
[T]he essays or chapters in this anthology are thoughtful,
thought-provoking, informed and interesting ... [and] they come at
their subject from an appropriately wide-ranging and
inter-disciplinary number of fields ... It’s a lively and varied
collection, that leaves room for even more consideration of the
elusive, enigmatic and influential Eno.
*International Times*
[A] series of essays by academics each focussing on an aspect of
Eno's work and ideas. ... There's even a chapter about Devo. A
fascinating [read].
*Electronic Sound*
As producer, musician, theorist, facilitator and more, Brian Eno
has left significant traces across popular culture since the 1970s
and this wide-ranging volume skillfully brings to light both
well-known and more obscure aspects of his work and legacy.
*Alexei Monroe, Cultural theorist and author of Interrogation
Machine: Laibach & NSK*
Few figures in the history of modern music stand up to the kind of
wide-ranging, detailed and careful treatment meted out in this
brilliant collection. Eno’s expansive repertoire – from glam rock
icon to avant-garde composer - constitutes the fertile grounds for
what is a learned and lively intervention. Deigned to be a
benchmark collection for anyone interested in process-oriented
creativity and experimental musicianship, the collection shines a
light on Eno’s dynamic craftsmanship. It fills a crucial gap in the
field, bestowing on the reader a unique insight into Eno the
polymath, singer, collaborator, composer, avant-gardiste,
intellectual and self-defined “non-musician”. A richly-informed,
lucidly written and rigorously compiled collection that provides
new insights with every turn of the page.
*Nick Prior, Senior Lecturer and Head of Sociology, University of
Edinburgh, Scotland*
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