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Zusatztext A delight for fans and scholars! Mute Records explores some of the most exciting and influential music of the past four decades. A record label born in a bedroom! Mute mixed the weird and the danceable! the avant garde and the mainstream! and in the process became a cozy home for platinum hitmakers and obscurantists alike. While upholding staunchly indie principles! Mute pioneered an electronic roots music that stands as a foundation for much contemporary dance-pop. The collection offers smart and passionate analyses of stars like Depeche Mode! Nick Cave! Moby and Goldfrapp alongside insightful essays on indie artists who helped shape the synthetic sound of our time. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship! the volume ranges across musicological! industrial! and sociological approaches! with particular attention to the radical gender and sexual politics of key artists. An example of popular music studies at its very best. Informationen zum Autor Zuleika Beaven is Senior Lecturer in Music Business & Arts Management at Middlesex University, UK. She is Programme Leader for the MA Arts Management, and teaches on the undergraduate popular music and music business degrees. Her research focuses on musician work and identity in the commercial space. Marcus O’Dair is Associate Professor in Music and Innovation at Middlesex University, UK where he co-leads the Popular Music programme and is the convenor of the Blockchain for Creative Industries research cluster. He is the author of Different Every Time (2014). Richard Osborne is Associate Professor in Music and Creative Industries at Middlesex University, UK. Prior to working in academia he was employed in music retail, held various posts at collecting societies and co-managed a pub. He is the author of Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record (2012), and co-editor of Mute Records (2019) and Music by Numbers (2021).The first book-length discussion of Mute Records, reflected through individually authored chapters that focus on key label signings, including Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Erasure, Moby and Goldfrapp. Zusammenfassung Mute Records is one of the most influential, commercially successful, and long-lasting of the British independent record labels formed in the wake of the late-1970’s punk explosion. Yet, in comparison with contemporaries such as Rough Trade or Stiff, its legacy remains under-explored.This edited collection addresses Mute’s wide-ranging impact. Drawing from disciplines such as popular music studies, musicology, and fan studies, it takes a distinctive, artist-led approach, outlining the history of the label by focusing each chapter on one of its acts. The book covers key moments in the company's evolution, from the first releases by The Normal and Fad Gadget to recent work by Arca and Dirty Electronics. It shines new light on the most successful Mute artists, including Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Erasure, Moby, and Goldfrapp, while also exploring the label's avant-garde innovators, such as Throbbing Gristle, Mark Stewart, Labaich, Ut, and Swans. Mute Records examines the business and aesthetics of independence through the lens of the label's artists. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of PlatesList of FiguresPermissionsList of ContributorsAcknowledgments Introduction: Mute Records Richard Osborne and Zuleika Beaven 1. 'Let’s Make Love Before You Die': 'Warm Leatherette', Boredom, and the Invention of the 1980s S. Alexander Reed, Ithaca College, USA 2. 'One Man’s Meat': Fad Gadget’s Social Commentary and Post-Punk Giuseppe Zevolli, King’s College, UK 3. Fans of Faith and Devotion: Obsession, Nostalgia and Depeche Mode Andy Pope, Independent Researcher 4. "Depeche Mode and Soft Cell": Redefining the Prologue of the Mute and Some Bizzare Record Labels Leon Clowes, Goldsmiths, University of...
