Earth Dances

Music in Search of the Primitive

Andrew Ford

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Black Inc
28 January 2015

Music; Music reviews & criticism

All music is a synthesis of intellectual design and bodily urge. The human soul cannot make do with dancing alone – it will inevitably seek more fantastic musical designs, more complex patterns, more rarefied sounds. Equally, when the intellect dominates for too long, we listen out for music we can tap our feet to, something we can go home humming . . .

Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring... Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture.

With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews, including with Liza Lim and Brian Eno, author and broadcaster Andrew Ford explores the relationship between primal forms of music and the most refined examples of the art – between passion and control. He looks at the voice, the drum, the drone and the dance, at ‘music that is in touch with something fundamental in our existence’.

By: Andrew Ford
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 348g
ISBN: 9781863957120
ISBN 10: 186395712X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 January 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Earth Dances: Music in Search of the Primitive

'Much has been made of the search for the lost chord. But chords are sophisticated structures. Earth Dances documents Andrew Ford's intrepid quest for the lost thud, and the lost scream ...Music can't survive without primitivism. It is the bushfire clearing overgrown and cluttered musical landscapes, paring them to essentials. This results in fresh structures, materials and practices that lead us to the place we belong.' Brian Ritchie, Violent Femmes, Mona Foma 'The perfect, knowledgeable, enthusiastic friend ...I couldn't put it down!' David Robertson