A01=John Encarnacao
Aba Form
Acoustic Guitar
analysis of contemporary folk innovation
Animal Collective
authenticity in popular music
Author_John Encarnacao
band
banhart
Black Branches
Campfire Songs
Captain Beefheart
Category=AVLP
Category=AVLT
city
Country Music
devendra
Devendra Banhart
drag
Drag City
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
experimental sound studies
Freak Folk
Free Folk
genre hybridity theory
incredible
Incredible String Band
Labyrinth Forms
Leaf House
lo-fi recording techniques
Montage Form
musicology research
outsider art analysis
plank
Plank Road
Punk Aesthetics
Record Collectors
Reduced Frequency Range
road
Rock Music
Steeleye Span
string
tall
Tall Dwarfs
Trout Mask Replica
Uncle Tupelo
Wild Love
Product details
- ISBN 9781409433996
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who use elements of folk music in contexts that are far from traditional. These (and other) so called ’new folk’ artists challenge our notions of 'finished product' through their recordings, intrinsically guided by practices and rhetoric inherited from punk. This book traces a fractured trajectory that includes Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Bob Dylan, psych-folk of the sixties (from Vashti Bunyan to John Fahey), lo-fi and outsider recordings (from Captain Beefheart and The Residents to Jandek, Daniel Johnston and Smog), and recent experimental folk (Animal Collective, Six Organs of Admittance, Charalambides) to contextualise the first substantial consideration of new folk. In the process, Encarnacao reviews the literature on folk and punk to argue that tropes of authenticity, though constructions, carry considerable power in the creation and reception of recorded works. New approaches to music require new analytical tools, and through the analysis of some 50 albums, Encarnacao introduces the categories of labyrinth, immersive and montage forms. This book makes a compelling argument for a reconsideration of popular music history that highlights the eternal compulsion for spontaneous, imperfect and performative recorded artefacts.
John Encarnacao is a composer, performer and educator. Recent projects include albums with song-based groups The Nature Strip and Warmer, and improvising trio Espadrille, as well as commissions for the theatre and chamber music. He lectures in music performance, composition, and musicology at the University of Western Sydney. An archive of John's recordings is being built at johnencarnacao.bandcamp.com.
