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Phil Rose delves into Radiohead's work and its cultural context, drawing out how the music addresses political, environmental, and social crises. This book reveals the true depth and musical genius that has solidified Radiohead's place in rock history and pop culture.
List of contents
Chapter 1 - Becoming Radiohead (1985-1993)
Chapter 2 - Towards Technological Apocalypse (1994-1995)
Chapter 3 - A Sergeant Pepper for the 'Net' Generation (1996-1998)
Chapter 4 - OK Computer (1996-1998)
Chapter 5 - Media Fallout (1998-1999)
Chapter 6 - Kosovo and the First Human Clone (2000-2001)
Chapter 7 - Creeping Totalitarianism (2002-2003)
Chapter 8 - Goodbye EMI, Hello Pay What You Want (2004-2008)
Chapter 9 - Post-Apocalypse? (2009-2012)
Chapter 10 - Forging Forward (2013-2016)
Chapter 11 - Looking Backwards (2017-2018)
About the author
Phil Rose has taught at a number of Canadian universities and is the president and chair of the Silvan Tomkins Institute. He has published in many academic journals on a variety of topics, and among his books are Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (2015), Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: Pragmatism Not Idealism (2016), and Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival (2017).
Summary
Phil Rose delves into Radiohead's work and its cultural context, drawing out how the music addresses political, environmental, and social crises. This book reveals the true depth and musical genius that has solidified Radiohead's place in rock history and pop culture.
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An all-encompassing book for Radiohead fans as well as for anyone who is interested in popular music and wants to know what all the fuss is about. Rose elegantly and eloquently illuminates what Radiohead’s music, and Thom Yorke’s lyrics, offer to us as (in the words of Kenneth Burke) a counter-statement against the life of these times in which we live.
