Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today
Simon Reynolds, "Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today"
English | ISBN: 0306833786 | 2024 | 416 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0306833786 | 2024 | 416 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future—the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transformed world just around the corner: a future that might be utopian or dystopian, but at least will be radically changed and exhilaratingly other.
Starting with an extraordinary chapter on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, taking in illuminating profiles of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boards of Canada, Burial, and Daft Punk, and arguing for Auto-Tune as the defining sound of 21st century pop,
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