Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909394408 ISBN 13 : 9781909394407

Editeur : Headpress, 2016

Synopsis

The first book devoted to power electronics, written by artists, fans, and critics.

Power electronics is a genre of industrial or 'noise' music that utilises feedback and synthesizers to produce an intense, loud, challenging sound. To match this sonic excess, power electronics also relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content - whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance. It is a genre that often invites strong reactions from both listeners and critics, if not dismissed or ignored altogether.

Fight Your Own War is the first ever English-language book primarily devoted to power electronics, bringing together essays and reviews that explore the current state of the genre, from early development through to live performance, listener experience, artist motivation, gender and subcultures, such as 'Japanoise'.

Written by artists, fans, and critics from around the world, Fight Your Own War provides comment on a musical form that is at once theatrical and absurdist, while bringing to listeners a violent, ecstatic, and potentially consciousness-altering experience. In considering this 'spectacle' of noise, how far can we simply label power electronics as a genre of shock tactics or of transgression for transgression's sake?

Featuring contributions by Mike Dando (foreword), Jennifer Wallis (introduction, editor and essays), Philip Taylor, Andrew Cooke, Mikko Aspa, Richard Stevenson, Ulex Xane, Scott E. Candey, Grant Hobson, Nathan Clemence, d foist, Tom Bench, Daniel Wilson, Duncan Taylor, Stephen Sennitt, Nick Nihilist, Bindweed, Jack Sargeant, Spencer Grady, Paul Margree, Sonia Dietrich, Clive Henry and Kevin Matthew Jones.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Wallis is a historian and author, currently living in Oxford, UK. She is a fan of power electronics and has previously worked with noise act Hate-Male.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Headpress
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909394408
• ISBN 13: 9781909394407
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Wallis Jennifer
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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