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Portishead Dummy by RJ Wheaton

33 1/3 | Item No: 370308
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An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together interviews, impressions of time and place, cultural criticism, and a thorough exploration of the music itself.

The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age.

248 pages.
Item Details
Item No: 370308
Artist: Portishead
Item: Dummy by RJ Wheaton
Label / Brand: 33 1/3
Category: Print & Design, Books, Paperback Books
Available since: 2014-06-20
Catalog No: 9781441194497
Price: $ 17.30
Weight: 1000g (plus 250g Packaging)
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