Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off
Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 January 2023
- ISBN 9780190699314
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 158x236x23 mm
- Weight 572 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 b&w halftones + 10 line drawings 436
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Short description:
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off explores the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic counterculture. It examines landmark psychedelic, new age, electronic dance, and ambient records, as well as related media discourses, that plotted the conventions of ambient music.
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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.
With flair and acumen, Victor Szabo delves deep into the aesthetics, phenomenology, and politics of ambient music. The result is a comprehensive and fascinating study of a musical genre that's been hailed as ignorable yet interesting.
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
