Dummy - 33 1/3

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.

ISBN:	9781441194497
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Continuum
Published date:	08 Dec 2011
DEWEY:	782.421660266
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	235
Weight:	238g
Height:	127mm
Width:	166mm
Spine width:	15mm

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