Cover Story Volume 2: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art

Staff Of Wax Poetics

ISBN 10: 0979811031 / ISBN 13: 9780979811036

Published by Wax Poetics, 2010

About this Item

2010 large paperback.slight edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 221126004

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cover Story Volume 2: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art
• Publisher: Wax Poetics
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979811031
• ISBN 13: 9780979811036
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Cover Story Volume Two: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art, the second installment in the Cover Story series from Wax Poetics Books, continues a graphic narration of the vibrant subculture of record collecting through the art of the album cover. This volume focuses specifically on strange and bizarre record covers, selected by the staff of Wax Poetics and major collectors of music’s avant-garde.

The Cover Story series vividly explores an element of music culture that has withered with the advent of MP3s and digital downloading. Vinyl records tell their stories visually as much as they do aurally, and the record cover—eye candy for the music lover—speaks a language rooted in the environment and era of the music itself. Cover Story Volume Two: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art celebrates the products of music’s most eclectic and eccentric figures—those whose artistic visions were so absurd and grandiose, they often extended beyond the boundaries of the recording and onto the album covers themselves.

About the Author

First published in December 2001, Brooklyn-born Wax Poetics hit newsstands with a new vision for music journalism, creating a bridge between the past and present of hip-hop, jazz, funk, soul, reggae, disco, and Latin music. Although originally created for a concentrated market of music aficionados, the magazine’s audience has grown exponentially, making musical anthropologists out of average music listeners and spawning a soul renaissance, complete with comeback tours and sophomore efforts. Wax Poetics illuminates the dark corners of our sonic past, while also striving to give new and innovative artists the credit they truly deserve.