The recent social media meme listing 10 concerts people have attended accompanied by one they didn’t (“find the lie!”) has incited me to complete a list that started out as a “50th anniversary of the concept album” brainstorm over drinks one night last year. The question here is a little different: What are the most formative and […]
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Greatest albums of the LP era
Posted in SoundScape, tagged aesthetics, album era, best albums, Bitches Brew, Bob Dylan, Can, Captain Beefheart, ecocritique, ecomusicology, Eno and Byrne, Funkadelic, Henry Cow, Incredible String Band, Magma, Miles Davis, music, musicology, process-relational theory, Radiohead, rock music, Talk Talk on May 8, 2017 | 8 Comments »
A 7-year musical itch
Posted in SoundScape, tagged 1960s, 1968, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Captain Beefheart, cultural change, David Ingram, ecocriticism, ecomusicology, Incredible String Band, jazz, Magma, Miles Davis, music, psychedelia, rock on March 12, 2015 | 5 Comments »
One of my pet musicological theories is that the years 1967-74 were the most creative 7-year period in the history of musical humanity. Why those years? The social and technological revolutions of the 1960s — civil rights, the women’s movement, the counterculture and anti-Vietnam War movements, the sudden unifying singularity of television and mass (and […]