Research Catalog
Beat happening
- Title
- Beat happening / Bryan C. Parker.
- Author
- Parker, Bryan C.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 161 pages; 17 cm
- Summary
- "This is the album that sent a shockwave of empowerment through the nation's cultural underground. In 1985, Olympia, Washington band Beat Happening released their eponymous debut of lo-fi pop songs on K Records and challenged every conception held about music. At the center of the group was the enigmatic Calvin Johnson and his revolutionary vision of artistic creation. His foresight and industriousness allowed him to recruit to the K Records roster other free-spirited artists like Beck, Modest Mouse, and Built to Spill long before they gained widespread acclaim. This book, structured in abecedarian fashion, breaks down the fundamental components that defined Beat Happening's self-titled album. Organized in a light-hearted yet incisive format, each of the book's chapters details one particular facet of the record-band members, historic shows, recording sessions, songs, and ideologies. Open to any page, read a chapter or two; the individual parts and episodes of the album exist as reflections of the album as a whole. Here is the story of a band that popularized do-it-yourself projects and home recording with four-track tape machines decades before the digital revolution would extend an open hand to garage bands everywhere. This is the story of musical pioneers. This is Beat Happening"--
- Series Statement
- 33 1/3
- Uniform Title
- 33 1/3.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Deconstructing a cupcake -- A is for Action -- B is for Bret -- C is for Calvin -- D is for DIY -- E is for Evergreen -- F is for Fun -- G is for Girl City -- H is for Heather -- I is for International pop underground -- J is for Japan -- K is for KAOS -- L is for Love Rock -- M is for Martin Apartments -- N is for Negative space -- O is for Olympia -- P is for Punk -- Q is for Question -- R is for Regionalism -- S is for Subterranean pop -- T is for Tropicana -- U is for Unfinished -- V is for inyl -- W is for Washington -- 25. X is for X-Rated -- Y is for Yoyo Studio -- Z is for Zooming Rocketship.
- Call Number
- *LE 15-5736
- ISBN
- 9781628929270
- 1628929278
- LCCN
- 2015012539
- OCLC
- 906798394
- Author
- Parker, Bryan C., author.
- Title
- Beat happening / Bryan C. Parker.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- 33 1/333 1/3.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- *LE 15-5736