PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
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 (2011) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (2016), and Contributing Editor (Music Technology) for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. He produces electronic music as ghost elektron and - with Martin James - as Nostalgia Deathstar. David Pattie is Senior Lecturer 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 (2007), and the co-editor of the books Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (2011) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (2016).
This volume marks itself as essential for even the most jaded VU head. ... Collectively these 12 chapters make for a lively, insightful, critical account of post-Velvet Underground activities. * www.peterstanfield.com * These essays place the Velvet Underground in the context of the downtown New York music, artistic and literary scene of the 1960s and examine its extended legacy in the later work of former group members and figures such as David Bowie and Jonathan Richman. The multiple perspectives they provide gave me new ways to grasp the legend that is the Velvet Underground. * Philip Auslander, Professor of Performance Studies and Popular Musicology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * The book offers a fresh approach to looking at The Velvet Underground, one of the most influential bands of the 20th century. Written from musicological, film studies, cultural studies, literary, and historical perspectives, the collection offers a vibrant and multidisciplinary take on the band and its larger 'world'. Chapters about an album, a controversial performance, a relationship, a film, and a fan, provide an eclectic and fresh view of the band, its members, and the broader cultural context within which it existed. * Abigail Gardner, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Gloucestershire, UK, and Associate Editor, Journal of The International Association of the Study of Popular Music * 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. * Tara Brabazon, Dean of Graduate Research and Professor of Cultural Studies, The Flinders University, Australia *
