Name: Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies) (in English)
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ISBN: 9788494052996

portada Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert Coover

Publisher

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Collection

narrativa

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

242

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8494052993

ISBN13

9788494052996

Synopsis "Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies) (in English)"

Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional 'notation-centric' musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and construction of meaning within the extended musical multimedia works of the classic British group Pink Floyd. Encompassing the concept albums that the group released from 1973 to 1983, during Roger Waters' final period with the band, chapters are devoted to Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979) and The Final Cut (1983), along with Waters' third solo album Amused to Death (1993). This book's analysis of album covers, lyrics, music and film makes use of techniques of literary and film criticism, while employing the combined lenses of musical hermeneutics and discourse analysis, so as to illustrate how sonic and musical information contribute to listeners' interpretations of the discerning messages of these monumental musical artifacts. Ultimately, it demonstrates how their words, sounds, and images work together in order to communicate one fundamental concern, which--to paraphrase the music journalist Karl Dallas--is to affirm human values against everything in life that should conspire against them.