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Registered in England No. 01984336. 33 1/3 MUSIC AND SOUND STUDIES – Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Suicide's Suicide Memphis Andi Coulter, Grand Valley State University, USA Eric Wolfson “We were hated by everybody,” Alan Vega proudly declares. “Everybody!” Hostile audiences seemed “I had to leave town for a little while—” with these to only fortify the frontman. Punk before punk, words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and Suicide was the ultimate dangerous band in the roll. A little over month earlier he had staged rock’s 1970s downtown New York scene. Armed only first and greatest comeback in a television program, with amplified AC current, Suicide terrorized their forever known as “The ’68 Comeback Special.” audience out of a state of complacency. While Suicide has always had With this show, he resurrected himself—at the age of 33, no less— a dedicated cult following within the musical community, the band is from the ashes of a career mired in lousy movies and even lousier still relatively unknown outside their musical coterie. This book looks soundtracks. So where to go from here? Like a killer returning to the at the influence comic antiheroes, specifically Ghost Rider, had on scene of the crime, Elvis came back home to Memphis, where it had the creation of Suicide as a band. This is the story of the myth behind all begun. Eschewing the fancier studios of Nashville and Hollywood, both the motorcycle-riding superhero and the notorious noise band. he set up shop at the ramshackle American Sound Studio, run by a maverick named Chips Moman with an in-house backing band simply UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 152 pages known as “The Memphis Boys,” and made the music of his life. The PB 9781501355660 • £9.99 / $14.95 resulting work, From Elvis in Memphis, would be the finest studio ePub 9781501355677 • £12.88 / $13.45 album of his career, an explosion of mature confidence and fiery ePdf 9781501355684 • £12.88 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic inspiration. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 152 pages PB 9781501355387 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501355394 • £12.88 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501355400 • £12.88 / $13.45 33 1/3 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic Goldie’s Timeless Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope Martyn Deykers, DJ, Promoter and Music Ayanna Dozier Producer, The Netherlands From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Timeless describes how the album came to be: Jackson’s career can be summed up in her journey A short description of the sparkling drum ‘n bass for control. Not just in her desire to regulate the scene of the time, and Goldie’s unlikely personal economic and creative aspects of her career but, journey as a graffiti writer turned music wunderkind. rather, the desire to control and be in control over It digs deeper into the music itself, analyzing several her bodily integrity as a Black woman in an industry of the key tracks, uncovering highly autobiographical lyrical content that hangs heavily on the sexualization of Black women’s bodies. but also looking at plenty of interesting sonic ideas that reference Dozier’s book examines Velvet Rope, the promotion, the tour, and Goldie’s previous music and that of his peers, hip hop, graffiti culture its accompanying music videos to suggest that it demonstrates the and movies. From the beautifully epic radio hit “Innercity Life” to the power of healing through a strictly Black feminist poetics. darker, grimier textures of “Jah the Seventh Seal”, the album covers a wide array of emotions and musical ideas. UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 152 pages PB 9781501355028 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501355035 • £12.88 / $13.45 • • UK September 2020 US September 2020 160 pages ePdf 9781501355042 • £12.88 / $13.45 • PB 9781501339776 £9.99 / $14.95 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic ePub 9781501339783 • £12.88 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501339790 • £12.88 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys The Songs of Leonard Cohen Michael E. Veal, Yale University, USA Ray Padgett, Freelance Writer, USA Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys album (1970) occupies a unique place within his recorded In 2016, Stereogum labeled the tribute album oeuvre. Revered by guitarists for its improvisational "possibly the most universally derided format in brilliance and a potent portal through which R&B, pop music." However, without a tribute album, you soul and funk musicians could interface with the wouldn't know the song "Hallelujah." When I'm aesthetics of psychedelic rock, the album was Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in ambivalently received in its day by a rock press who found it a 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s desultory come down from the heights of the psychedelic counter- high. Jeff Buckley adored the tribute album and covered Cale's cover, culture of which Hendrix had been anointed symbolic king. But like having not even heard Cohen's still-obscure original version. Through Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On and Sly & the Family Stone’s There’s Buckley through Cale, "Hallelujah" is now one of the most often- A Riot Goin’ On (both 1971), Band of Gypsys was the vision of an performed songs in the world--and it wouldn't be without this tribute artist whose take on the utopianism of the 1960s was tempered by album. I'm Your Fan thus offers a particularly notable example of a the hard realities of race, politics, war and the vicissitudes of the much broader truth: Despite all the eye-rolling they inspire, tribute music industry. albums matter. They can resuscitate legends' fading careers, or expose obscure artists who never had much of a career to begin with. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 152 pages PB 9781501339813 • £9.99 / $14.95 UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 152 pages ePub 9781501339820 • £11.95 / $12.99 PB 9781501355066 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePdf 9781501339844 • £11.95 / $12.99 ePub 9781501355073 • £12.88 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781501355080 • £12.88 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 1 33 1/3 33 1/3 Heiner Müller and Heiner Darkthrone’s A Blaze in the Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Northern Sky Chaussee Ross Hagen, Utah Valley University, USA Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago, USA Darkthrone’s A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) is one of the most beloved black metal albums By gathering historical and musical fragments from and a keystone of the musical and aesthetic vision a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold of the notorious Norwegian black metal scene. War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and Its mysterious artwork and raw sound continue West German composer Heiner Goebbels created to captivate and inspire black metal fans and musicians worldwide. Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched This book explores the album in the context of musical geography, across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. examining how black metal music has come to conjure images of A vast range of musical styles coalesce in the five acts, which expose untamed Nordic wildernesses in the global imagination. In doing so, the wounds of European history, while struggling musically to heal it analyzes aspects of musical style and production that created the them. This extraordinary recording from 1988 not only captures the distinctly “grim” sound of Darkthrone and Norwegian black metal. sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it. UK October 2020 • US

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