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Brian Eno's seminal album
Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent.
List of contents
- About the Companion Website
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: White Noise, Seminal Sounds
- Chapter One: A First Listen, or Through a Glass Lightly
- Chapter Two: Music for Airports and the Avant-Garde: The Activity of Sounds
- Chapter Three: Eno's Journey from Art School to the Studio: Becoming a Non-Musician
- Chapter Four: Ambience
- Chapter Five: Between Hearing and Listening: Music for Airports as Conceptual Art
- Crossroads: An Afterword
- Sources for Further Reading and Listening
About the author
John T. Lysaker is currently William R. Kenan Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He works in the philosophy of art and literature, philosophical psychology, and 19th and 20th century American and Continental Philosophy. His books include You Must Change Your Life: Philosophy, Poetry, and the Birth of Sense, After Emerson, and Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought. Current work includes a general theory of art and an extended inquiry into the nature of friendship.
Summary
Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent.
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MFA quietly and resolutely challenges many received ideas about music; John Lysaker's new book provides a wonderfully wide-ranging, non-technical guide to the record in all its aspects, musical, social and philosophical. A mindful, multi-faceted examination of a mindful, multi-faceted masterpiece.
