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9780190699307

Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past

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    9780190699307

  • ISBN10:

    0190699302

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-11-18
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone audio producers and DJs between the mid-1960s and century's end commodified drone- and loop-based records as "ambient audio": slow, spare, spacious audio sold as artful personal media for creating atmosphere, fostering contemplation, transforming awareness, and stilling the body.

The book takes a trip through landmark ambient audio productions and related discourses, including marketing rhetoric, artist manifestos and interviews, and music criticism, that during this time plotted the conventions of what became known as ambient music. These productions include nature sounds records, experimental avant-garde pieces, "space music" radio, psychedelic and cosmic rock albums, electronic dance music compilations, and of course, explicitly "ambient" music, all of which popularized ambient audio through vivid atmospheric concepts.

In paying special attention to the sound of ambient audio; to ambient audio's relationship with the psychedelic, New Age, and rave countercultures of the US and UK; and to the coincident evolution of therapeutic audio and "head music" across alternative media and independent music markets, this history resituates ambient music as a hip highbrow framing and stylization of ongoing practices in crafting audio to alter consciousness, comportment, and mood. In so doing, Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off illuminates the social and aesthetic rifts and alliances informing one of today's most popular musical experimentalisms.

Author Biography


Victor Szabo is Elliott Assistant Professor of Music at Hampden-Sydney College. His work broadly addresses the socioaesthetics of 20th and 21st century popular and electronic music, with special focus on queer and countercultural topics, as well as on the cultural politics of taste, emotion, and mood. He is also a DJ, film buff, and cocktail enthusiast.

Table of Contents


Preface

Introduction: Highs for Highbrows? How We Got from Head Music to Ambient Music

Chapter 1: Inside Environments's Psychedelic "Psychological Sound"

Chapter 2: Pacifica Radio's Music from the Hearts of Space and the Spacious Sound of California's New Age

Chapter 3: Brian Eno's Ambivalent Ambiences

Chapter 4: Ambient EDM, or Dance Music That Isn't Dance Music!

Coda

Bibliography

Selected Discography

Index

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