Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone

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Scott Wilson

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Hardback

Series:

Ex:Centrics

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Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone offers, in detailed interpretative commentaries of his best songs, a sustained assessment of the work and career of Scott Walker, one of the most significant and perplexing artists of the late 20th and 21st century. For Brian Eno, Walker was not only a great composer and a superlative lyricist but also a significant contemporary poet. Marc Almond goes further, 'an absolute musical genius, existential and intellectual and a star right from the days of The Walker Brothers'. As Almond suggests, Walker's work is marked by a continual engagement with existentialist philosophy informing his approach to art, politics and life. In particular, the device of the solitary figure or 'one-all-alone' evoked in his songs provides the basis for his lyrical exploration of the singularity of existence – in all its darkness as well as light. Through following his own path, Walker arrived at a unique sound according to his own method that produced a genuinely new form of song. Looking closely at these songs, this book also considers the wider political implications of his approach in its rejection of external authorities and common or consensual ideals.

Author Biography:

Scott Wilson is Professor of Media and Psychoanalysis at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) and the editor of Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology (2014).

Release date Australia

October 3rd, 2019

Author

Scott Wilson

Series

Ex:Centrics

Pages

232

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

ISBN-13

9781501332593

Product ID

28753740

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