Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies Applied to Business. Brian Eno has cemented his legendary status in music about ten times over. He was a founding member of Roxy Music, created at least 3 classic solo albums before becoming bored of conventional rock music and subsequently inventing ambient music. Eno created a deck of cards. A line has two sides Infinitesimal gradations Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list Into the impossible. ![]()
This volume examines Eno's work as a musician, as a theoretician, as a collaborator, and as a producer. Brian Eno is one of the most influential figures in popular music; an updated examination of his work on this scale is long overdue. Table of contents Introduction: Brian Eno: A problem of organization - David Pattie and Sean Albiez PART ONE - Eno: Composer, musician and theorist 1 The Bogus Men: Eno, Ferry and Roxy Music - David Pattie 2 Brian Eno, non- musicianship and the experimental tradition - Cecilia Sun 3 Taking the studio by strategy- David Pattie 4 Between the avant- garde and the popular: The discursive economy of Brian Eno's musical practices - Chris Atton 5 Yes, but is it music? Brian Eno and the definition of ambient music - Mark Edward Achtermann 6 The Lovely Bones: Music from beyond - Hillegonda C. Rietveld 7 The voice and/of Brian Eno - Sean Albiez PART TWO - The University of Eno: Production and collaborations 8 Before and after Eno: Situating 'The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool' - Sean Albiez and Ruth Dockwray 9 Control and surrender: Eno remixed – collaboration and Oblique Strategies - Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell 10 Avant-gardism, 'Africa' and appropriation in My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Elizabeth Ann Lindau 11 Eno and Devo - Jonathan Stewart 12 Another Green World? Eno, Ireland and U2 - Noel McLaughlin 13 Documenting no wave: Brian Eno as urban ethnographer - Martin James Select Discography. Reviews “Specialists in English, media, film and television have also been invited to take part in this conversation, which feels authentic to the spirit of Eno. ![]() The book mulls over those necessary questions that anyone thinking about Eno must eventually face.” – The Wire “Contributions include meticulous descriptions of compositions; a chapter about Eno's ambient oeuvre (which quirkily compares him to Tolkien at great length). Albiez contributes to the best piece on precursors to Eno's use of the studio to create new sounds. Intellectually stimulating.” – Record Collector “The collection's standouts are Martin James' pithy, pacy account of Eno's years in New York (1978-84) and Hillegonda Rietveld's coolly attentive reading of the soundtrack to the film The Lovely Bones, in which his “oblique music seems like a ghostly call from the 'in-between'”.” – Times Higher Education “For quite some time, Brian Eno has been jokingly referred to as the 'professor of pop'. It's about time, then, that real academics caught up with a body of work that is as perplexing as it is complex. Essential reading for all academic listeners.” – Times Higher Education ('What are you reading?' ) “This much needed book explores the many trajectories of Eno's varied career, and it will engage and excite any music lover, regardless of your opinion of Eno's work. It's a richly rewarding collection that deftly explores and unpacks the work of one of popular music's pioneering figures.
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