The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band.
The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the worlds most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will tear down the wall, examining the bands collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyds work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media/communication studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band.
Introduction: "What Happened to the Post-War Dream?" The Story of Pink
Floyd
Companions to the Albums of Pink Floyd and Sources on Pink Floyd
Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison
PART I
Performance & Sound
1 A Cartographical Companion to Listening and Understanding the Songs of Pink
Floyd
Chris Hart
2 A Saucerful of Secrets: Pink Floyd, Free Improvisation and Collective
Composition
John Encarnacao
3 David Gilmour: Defining the Melodic Guitarist
Richard Perks
4 Planet Floyd: The Evolution of Pink Floyd's Live Performances
David Pattie
5 Back to the UFO: Pink Floyd, The Division Bell Tour (1994), and the
Retrofied Aesthetics of Psychedelia
Kimi Kärki
PART 2
Media, Reception & Fandom
6 Original Soundtracks: Pink Floyd in the Movies
Philippe Gonin
7 Us and Them: Pink Floyd and the British Music Media
Simon A. Morrison
8 Visual Coverscapes: Why Pink Floyd Album Covers Dont Have Types
Cinla Seker with Chris Hart
9 Pink Floyd Memories and Memorability: 'A personal essay on fandom and
collecting'
Bob Follen
PART 3
Genre
10 In Search of Space (Rock): Pink Floyd and Generic Formation in Popular
Music
Tico Romao
11 On The Run: The Birth of Electronic Dance Music?
Jim J. Mason
12 More Punk than Pink: Pink Floyds Relationship with 1970s UK Punk
Martin James
13 Pink Floyd: The Musical Elements
David J. Detmer
PART 4
Periods of Pink Floyds Work
14 The Psychedelic Self at Play: Re-reading Whimsy in the Early Music of Pink
Floyd
James Barrett
15 Legacy Recre/ation: Mining the Elements in the Archive of The Early Years
Boxset
Rob Chapman
16 Cruising for a bruising: How The Dark Side Of The Moon Made Pink Floyd
Successful Beyond their Wildest Dreams and Instigated their Downfall
Daryl Easlea
17 Pink Floyds Shine On You Crazy Diamond and the Stage Theory of Grief
Gilad Cohen
18 A certain unease in the air: Transitional Aspects of Pink Floyds
Animals
Edward Macan
19 Behind The Wall: A Tool for Condemning Totalitarianism
Jean-Rene Larue
20 Hey You! Subjectivity and the Ideological Repressive State Apparatuses in
Pink Floyds
The Wall
Tina Richardson
21 Truth and Manipulation in Pink Floyds The Final Cut
Glenn Fosbraey
PART 5
Aesthetics & Subjectivity
22 Meadows, Relics, and Victorian Dolls Houses Places, Ephemera, and the
Unreal
Realities of Pink Floyd
Peter Hughes Jachimiak
23 The Pink Floyd Intensity: Humanity, Aesthetics and the Breathless Fan
Robert Wilsmore
24 The Cultural Legacy of Syd Barrett's English Pastoral
Simon Gwyn Roberts
25 Temporal Structuration in Pink Floyds The Wall
Vesa-Matti Sarenius, Marian Tumanyan and Chris Hart
26 A Temporal Journey Through Pink Floyds Music
Gilad Cohen
Chris Hart is an independent author and researcher. Chris has been senior researcher on several international research projects, working with major global brands across Europe.
Simon A. Morrison is a writer, academic and Programme Leader for Music Journalism at the University of Chester.
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