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Zusatztext The Velvet Underground was a stroppy, defiant and difficult band. The academic research into the Velvets rarely captured the rage, the humour, the confusion, the ambivalence and the raw power. The Velvet Underground is a magisterial book that “gets” the Velvets. There is a commitment to arch beyond easy commentary about Reed or Warhol or Tucker. This book revels in un/popular music that lashes into our populist times. Informationen zum Autor Sean Albiez is an Independent Scholar and musician. He has published on electronic music, music technology, punk and post-punk. He is currently researching topics in electronic music history and has thirty years experience lecturing in popular music at UK universities and colleges. He is co-editor of Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (Bloomsbury, 2011), Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Velvet Underground (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Contributing Editor (Music Technology) for the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World . He produces electronic music as ghost elektron and - with Martin James - as Nostalgia Deathstar. David Pattie is Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He researches and publishes in a number of areas; popular music performance and culture, contemporary British and Scottish theatre, and the work of Samuel Beckett. He is the author of Rock Music in Performance (Bloomsbury, 2007), and the co-editor of the books Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Velvet Underground (Bloomsbury, 2022). Zusammenfassung Though The Velvet Underground were critically and commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing decades they have become a constant touchstone in art rock, punk, post-punk, indie, avant pop and alternative rock. In the 1970s and 80s Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico produced a number of works that traveled a path between art and pop. In 1993 the original band members of Reed, Cale, Morrison and Tucker briefly reunited for live appearances, and afterwards Reed, Cale and briefly Tucker, continued to produce music that travelled the idiosyncratic path begun in New York in the mid-1960s.The influence of the band and band members, mediated and promoted through famous fans such as David Bowie and Brian Eno, seems only to have expanded since the late 1960s. In 1996 the Velvet Underground were in inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, demonstrating how far the band had traveled in 30 years from an avant-garde cult to the mainstream recognition of their key contributions to popular music. In these collected essays, Pattie and Albiez present the first academic book-length collection on The Velvet Underground. The book covers a range of topics including the band’s relationship to US literature, to youth and cultural movements of the 1960s and beyond and to European culture - and examines these contexts from the 1960s through to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction Sean Albiez (Independent Scholar, UK) and David Pattie (University of Birmingham, UK) 1.Saved by Rock and Roll: The Velvet Underground In and Out of History Jeffrey Roessner (Mercyhurst University, USA) 2. The Velvet Underground and the Networks of Sound, Vision and Words of the Fertile Transatlantic Crescent 1965 - 1967 Johnny Hopkins (Solent University, Southampton, UK) and Martin James (Solent University, Southampton, UK) 3. Andy Warhol Films, The Velvet Underground and NicoG lyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) 4. ‘The Riskiest Kind of Writing Available’: Lou Reed, Grove Press and the Literary Underground Thom Robinson (Newcastle University, UK) 5. The Velvet Underground and Musical Archetypes Julijana Papazova (European Scientific Institute, Spain) 6. Lou Reed’s Great American Novel...
