Pink Floyd and Philosophy

Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2008
Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-0-8126-9636-3 (ISBN)

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Pink Floyd’s sound and light shows in the 1960s defined psychedelia, but their later recordings combined rock, orchestral music, literature, and philosophy. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall ignored pop music’s usual strictures to focus on themes of madness, despair, brutality, and alienation. Here, 16 scholars set delve into the heart of Pink Floyd by examining ideas, concepts, and problems usually encountered not in a rock band's lyrics but in the pages of Heidegger, Foucault, and Sartre. These include the meaning of existence, the individual's place in society, the contradictions of art and commerce, and the blurry line between genius and madness. The band’s dynamic history allows the writers to explore controversies about intellectual property, the nature of authorship, and whether wholes, especially in the case of rock bands, are more than the sum of their parts.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.1.2008
Reihe/Serie	Popular Culture and Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	411 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-8126-9636-0 / 0812696360
ISBN-13	978-0-8126-9636-3 / 9780812696363
Zustand	Neuware