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Author Hart, Chris

Title The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (517 p.)
Series Routledge Music Handbooks Ser
Routledge Music Handbooks Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'What happened to the post-war dream?' The story of Pink Floyd -- Companions to the albums of Pink Floyd and sources on Pink Floyd -- PART I Performance and sound -- 1 A cartographical companion to listening to and understanding the songs of Pink Floyd -- 2 A saucerful of secrets: Pink Floyd, free improvisation and collective composition -- 3 David Gilmour: defining the 'melodic' guitarist
4 Planet Floyd: the evolution of Pink Floyd's live performances -- 5 Back to the UFO: Pink Floyd, The Division Bell tour (1994) and the retrofied aesthetics of psychedelia -- PART II Media, reception and fandom -- 6 Original soundtracks: Pink Floyd in the movies -- 7 'Us and them': Pink Floyd and the British music media -- 8 Visual coverscapes: why Pink Floyd album covers don't have types -- 9 Pink Floyd memories and memorability: 'a personal essay on fandom and collecting' -- PART III Genre -- 10 In search of space (rock): Pink Floyd and genre formation in popular music
11 'On the Run': the birth of electronic dance music? -- 12 More punk than Pink: Pink Floyd's relationship with 1970s UK punk -- 13 Pink Floyd: the musical elements -- PART IV Periods of Pink Floyd's work -- 14 The psychedelic self at play: re-reading whimsy in the early music of Pink Floyd -- 15 Legacy recre/ation: mining the elements in the archive of The Early Years box set -- 16 'Cruising for a bruising': how The Dark Side of the Moon made Pink Floyd successful beyond their wildest dreams and instigated their downfall
17 Pink Floyd's 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and the stage theory of grief -- 18 'A certain unease in the air': transitional aspects of Pink Floyd's Animals -- 19 Behind The Wall: a tool for condemning totalitarianism -- 20 Hey you! subjectivity and the ideological repressive state apparatuses in Pink Floyd's The Wall -- 21 Truth and manipulation in Pink Floyd's The Final Cut -- PART V Aesthetics and Subjectivity -- 22 Meadows, relics, and Victorian dolls' houses: places, ephemera, and the unreal realities of Pink Floyd -- 23 The Pink Floyd Intensity: humanity, aesthetics and the breathless fan
24 The cultural legacy of Syd Barrett's English pastoral -- 25 Temporal structuration in Pink Floyd's The Wall -- 26 A temporal journey through Pink Floyd's music -- Pink Floyd: Selective Chronology of Relevant Events -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Morrison, Simon A
ISBN 9781000649536
1000649539