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Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
ISBN
9781623568924
Book Title
Sigur Rós's ( )
Book Series
33 1/3 Ser.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Item Length
6.4 in
Publication Year
2014
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Ethan Hayden
Genre
Music
Topic
Genres & Styles / Punk, History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
Item Width
4.8 in
Number of Pages
168 Pages

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Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur R s's ( ) , and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title--or rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The intention being that listeners will fill in the parentheses with their own title, their own interpretation of the sounds on the record. The CD sleeve consists of twelve pages that are essentially blank, lacking song titles, liner notes or production credits. Instead, it contains only semi-translucent frosted images of abstract natural scenes (tree branches, clouds, etc.), on which the listener is free to inscribe their own notes--or no notes at all. And then there are the lyrics, sung in a deliberately unintelligible tongue called "Hopelandic" which the band invites listeners to interpret freely. Ethan Hayden's book doesn't try to fill in the gaps between the album's parentheses, but instead explores the ways in which listeners might attempt to do so. Examining the communicative powers of asemantic language, the book asks whether music can bring sense to nonsense. What happens to the voice when it stops singing conventional language: does it simply become another musical instrument, or is it somehow more "human"? What role does space play on ( ) ? And how do we interpret music that we cannot possibly understand, but feel very deeply that we do?

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
1623568927
ISBN-13
9781623568924
eBay Product ID (ePID)
171767032

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sigur Rós's ( )
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Genres & Styles / Punk, History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music
Author
Ethan Hayden
Book Series
33 1/3 Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
Item Length
6.4 in
Item Width
4.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Ethan Hayden painstakingly transcribes the eight untitled tracks on ( ) into a series of long vowel sounds and odd clusters of consonants in an attempt to diagram the syntax of this strange new tongue and figure out what the band might be saying (despite their best efforts not to say anything)., While Sigur Ros fans who are not also students of linguistics would probably prefer a book that concentrated more on the music and less on things like trochaic rhythm, xenogloss and echolalia, there's no denying that Hayden does make his points successfully and reading this book did give me a new level of appreciation for an album I already loved., "Ethan Hayden painstakingly transcribes the eight untitled tracks on ( ) into a series of long vowel sounds and odd clusters of consonants in an attempt to diagram the syntax of this strange new tongue and figure out what the band might be saying (despite their best efforts not to say anything)." --Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork
Lccn
2014-009099
Dewey Decimal
781.64
Lc Classification Number
Ml421.S52s54 2014
Copyright Date
2014

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