They Might Be Giants' Flood - PhD S. Alexander Reed, PhD Elizabeth Sandifer

They Might Be Giants' Flood

Buch | Softcover
152 Seiten
2013
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-62356-915-0 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
For a few decades now, They Might Be Giants’ album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, who are more often called clever than cool. Neither the band’s hip origins in the Lower East Side scene nor Flood’s platinum certification can cover up the record's singular importance at the geek fringes of culture.

Flood’s significance to this audience helps us understand a certain way of being: it shows that geek identity doesn’t depend on references to Hobbits or Spock ears, but can instead be a set of creative and interpretive practices marked by playful excess—a flood of ideas.

The album also clarifies an historical moment. The brainy sort of kids who listened to They Might Be Giants saw their own cultural options grow explosively during the late 1980s and early 1990s amid the early tech boom and America’s advancing leftist social tides. Whether or not it was the band's intention, Flood’s jubilant proclamation of an identity unconcerned with coolness found an ideal audience at an ideal turning point. This book tells the story.

S. Alexander Reed, PhD is a musician and professor, currently teaching at Ithaca College, US. He is author of Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. Elizabeth Sandifer, PhD publishes and blogs about the psychic history of comics and science fiction. She is author of TARDIS Eruditorum. Both she and Reed are graduates of The College of Wooster.

PROLOGUE: THEME FROM FLOOD
1. WHO MIGHT BE GIANTS?
2. LINCOLN
3. BROOKLYN’S AMBASSADORS OF LOVE
4. AMERICA
5. FLOODING
6. CHILDHOOD
7. MEDIALITY
8. GEEK CULTURE
9. POST-COOLNESS
EPILOGUE: AFTER THE FLOOD

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.1.2014
Reihe/Serie 33 1/3
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 121 x 165 mm
Gewicht 134 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-62356-915-X / 162356915X
ISBN-13 978-1-62356-915-0 / 9781623569150
Zustand Neuware
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