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Exotica takes a look at the music and people behind some of the world's most witty, experimental and adventurous sound recordings. Since the invention of the microphone, people have experimented with sound, putting everything from thunderstorms and dolphin sounds, medical operations, native jungle drums and junkyard trash down on vinyl. Notions of the exotic have inspired popular music and musicians in all fields from classical, through "easy listening" to rap - from Stravinsky to the Boo-Yah T.R.I.B.E David Toop takes the reader through the 20th century's fascination with exotica, its icons and practitioners, taking in the work of Les Baxter, the meaning of Carmen Miranda, leopard skin leotards and pink fluffy cubicles, elevator music and more. Included are interviews with Burt Bacharach, Ornette Coleman, Bill Laswell, YMO's Haroumi Hosono, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
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David Toop is a highly regarded author, music critic and musician. Since 1995 he has released three solo albums, curated five compilation albums (including the soundtrack to Ocean of Sound), and the sound and music exhibition at the Hayward Gallery - 'Sonic Boom'. His music journalism appears in The Wire, Book Forum, The Times and The Face.
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To put it starkly, Toop knows far more, about a far broader range of music, than any other critic * New Statesman * Brave in ambition and scope, exciting in execution? The result is a book that, like no other, encompasses the way people hear and produce music today * Jon Savage in Mojo * Erudite and entertaining?including one of the most fascinating, eclectic discographies ever to make it into print * Wired *
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1852425954
- ISBN 13 9781852425951
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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