Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off explores the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic counterculture. It examines landmark psychedelic, new age, electronic dance, and ambient records, as well as related media discourses, that plotted the conventions of ambient music.
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off explores the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic counterculture. It examines landmark psychedelic, new age, electronic dance, and ambient records, as well as related media discourses, that plotted the conventions of ambient music.
Victor Szabo is Elliott Assistant Professor of Music at Hampden-Sydney College. His work broadly addresses the socioaesthetics of 20th and 21st century popular and electronic music, with special focus on queer and countercultural topics, as well as on the cultural politics of taste, emotion, and mood. He is also a DJ, film buff, and cocktail enthusiast.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Introduction: Highs for Highbrows? How We Got from Head Music to Ambient Music * Chapter 1: Inside Environments's Psychedelic "Psychological Sound" * Chapter 2: Pacifica Radio's Music from the Hearts of Space and the Spacious Sound of California's New Age * Chapter 3: Brian Eno's Ambivalent Ambiences * Chapter 4: Ambient EDM, or Dance Music That Isn't Dance Music! * Coda * Bibliography * Selected Discography * Index
* Preface * Introduction: Highs for Highbrows? How We Got from Head Music to Ambient Music * Chapter 1: Inside Environments's Psychedelic "Psychological Sound" * Chapter 2: Pacifica Radio's Music from the Hearts of Space and the Spacious Sound of California's New Age * Chapter 3: Brian Eno's Ambivalent Ambiences * Chapter 4: Ambient EDM, or Dance Music That Isn't Dance Music! * Coda * Bibliography * Selected Discography * Index
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