Mute Records: Artists, Business, HistoryZuleika Beaven, Marcus O’Dair, Richard Osborne Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 27. dets 2018 - 256 pages Mute Records is one of the most influential, commercially successful, and long-lasting of the British independent record labels formed in the wake of the late-1970's punk explosion. Yet, in comparison with contemporaries such as Rough Trade or Stiff, its legacy remains under-explored. This edited collection addresses Mute's wide-ranging impact. Drawing from disciplines such as popular music studies, musicology, and fan studies, it takes a distinctive, artist-led approach, outlining the history of the label by focusing each chapter on one of its acts. The book covers key moments in the company's evolution, from the first releases by The Normal and Fad Gadget to recent work by Arca and Dirty Electronics. It shines new light on the most successful Mute artists, including Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Erasure, Moby, and Goldfrapp, while also exploring the label's avant-garde innovators, such as Throbbing Gristle, Mark Stewart, Labaich, Ut, and Swans. Mute Records examines the business and aesthetics of independence through the lens of the label's artists. |
Contents
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Fad Gadgets Social Commentary and PostPunk | 31 |
Redefining the SynthPop Prologue | 47 |
Obsession Nostalgia and Depeche Mode | 59 |
PostHippiePrePunkPostPunk | 71 |
Nick Cave the Bad Seeds and the Blues | 87 |
7 Mark Stewart Somewhere | 101 |
10 The MashUp of Aesthetics Theory and Politics in Laibachs MetaSound | 141 |
Independence Style and Process in the Music of Swans | 155 |
12 Moby Minstrelsy and Melville | 169 |
Rural Feminism in the Performance of Alison Goldfrapp | 183 |
Goldfrapps Genre Perversion | 197 |
Mutes Mutant | 209 |
Sonic Artist Dirty Electronics | 223 |
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Erasure Mute and the Value of Independence | 113 |
9 Outside Mute? Ut No Wave and Blast First | 127 |
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