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Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV [33 1/3] - Davis, Erik - paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780826416582
- Book Title
- Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV
- Book Series
- 33 1/3 Ser.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Item Length
- 7.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Music
- Topic
- Genres & Styles / Rock
- Item Weight
- 6.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 4.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826416586
ISBN-13
9780826416582
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30778733
Product Key Features
Book Title
Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Genres & Styles / Rock
Genre
Music
Book Series
33 1/3 Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.4 Oz
Item Length
7.4 in
Item Width
4.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-001104
Reviews
"...Davis, who's a regular contributor to Wired, spins an irresistible narrative about his rediscovery of the classic album while driving through England, tying the songs in with pagan myth and feminine representation. Far from being pretentious, Davis' meditation is charming and readable." -Philadelphia Weekly, …the literary equivalent of sparking the owl, crafting a sigil, cranking up a backmasked copy of Stairway to Heaven, and settling in for a deep chat with the collective satanic majesties of visionary rock. Village Voice, Richard Gehr, …Davis, who's a regular contributor to Wired, spins an irresistible narrative about his rediscovery of the classic album while driving through England, tying the songs in with pagan myth and feminine representation. Far from being pretentious, Davis' meditation is charming and readable. Philadelphia Weekly, "The most engaging aspect of this irresistibly readable book is the sheer delight Davis so obviously takes in over reading this stuff. It's as if he went through some hermeneutic wormhole and emerged in a parallel universe where Zep's legendary fourth album is infinitely dense with significance--a textual black hole that sucks all meaning into its dark maw.." -Shovelware, Mark Dery, "The most intellectually inspired and flat-out fun of Continuum's ongoing 33 1/3 series of pocketbook album appreciations, critic Davis's adventurous treatise decodes every magikal property embedded within rock's most geeked-on masterpiece."- Blender, S the literary equivalent of sparking the owl, crafting a sigil, cranking up a backmasked copy of SStairway to Heaven, and settling in for a deep chat with the collective satanic majesties of visionary rock. “Village Voice, Richard Gehr, The most engaging aspect of this irresistibly readable book is the sheer delight Davis so obviously takes in over reading this stuff. It's as if he went through some hermeneutic wormhole and emerged in a parallel universe where Zep's legendary fourth album is infinitely dense with significance-a textual black hole that sucks all meaning into its dark maw.. Shovelware, Mark Dery, "...the literary equivalent of sparking the owl, crafting a sigil, cranking up a backmasked copy of "Stairway to Heaven," and settling in for a deep chat with the collective satanic majesties of visionary rock." -Village Voice, Richard Gehr, "The most ingenious aspect of this book, even if you're not literate in mysticism and the occult, is that Davis intentionally and deliberately overanalyzes the entire album…That's the point. It's almost like reaching over to your bookshelf, pulling out the entire Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown series and applying them to "Four Sticks"…you can tell that Davis had an absolute blast with this whole project." - Metro NY, August 2005, "...mostlikely destined to a fate of cult favorite, LedZeppelin IV by Erik Davis soars the heights of some very rarified airindeed."- Joe Pettit, Ugly Things, Issue25, SThe most engaging aspect of this irresistibly readable book is the sheer delight Davis so obviously takes in over reading this stuff. It "s as if he went through some hermeneutic wormhole and emerged in a parallel universe where Zep "s legendary fourth album is infinitely dense with significance �a textual black hole that sucks all meaning into its dark maw.. “Shovelware, Mark Dery, S Davis, who "s a regular contributor to Wired, spins an irresistible narrative about his rediscovery of the classic album while driving through England, tying the songs in with pagan myth and feminine representation. Far from being pretentious, Davis " meditation is charming and readable. “Philadelphia Weekly, "The most ingenious aspect of this book, even if you're not literate in mysticism and the occult, is that Davis intentionally and deliberately overanalyzes the entire album That's the point. It's almost like reaching over to your bookshelf, pulling out the entire Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown series and applying them to "Four Sticks" you can tell that Davis had an absolute blast with this whole project." -- Metro NY, August 2005
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
782.4216609
Synopsis
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots-and leaves the reader to decide whether [FOUR SYMBOLS] is some form of occult induction or just an inspired, brilliantly played rock album. Excerpt: Stripping Led Zeppelin's famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet. But the wordless jacket also lent the album charisma. Fans hunted for hidden meanings, or, in failing to find them, sensed a strange reflection of their own mute refusal to communicate with the outside world. This helped to create one of the supreme paradoxes of rock history: an esoteric megahit, a blockbuster arcanum. Stripped of words and numbers, the album no longer referred to anything but itself: a concrete talisman that drew you into its world, into the frame. All the stopgap titles we throw at the thing are lame: Led Zeppelin IV, [Untitled], Runes, Zoso, Four Symbols. In an almost Lovecraftian sense, the album was nameless, a thing from beyond, charged with manna. And yet this uncanny fetish was about as easy to buy as a jockstrap., In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots-and leaves the reader to decide whether [FOUR SYMBOLS] is some form of occult induction or just an inspired, brilliantly played rock album.Excerpt:Stripping Led Zeppelin's famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet. But the wordless jacket also lent the album charisma. Fans hunted for hidden meanings, or, in failing to find them, sensed a strange reflection of their own mute refusal to communicate with the outside world. This helped to create one of the supreme paradoxes of rock history: an esoteric megahit, a blockbuster arcanum. Stripped of words and numbers, the album no longer referred to anything but itself: a concrete talisman that drew you into its world, into the frame. All the stopgap titles we throw at the thing are lame: Led Zeppelin IV, [Untitled], Runes, Zoso, Four Symbols. In an almost Lovecraftian sense, the album was nameless, a thing from beyond, charged with manna. And yet this uncanny fetish was about as easy to buy as a jockstrap., In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots-and leaves the reader to decide whether FOUR SYMBOLS] is some form of occult induction or just an inspired, brilliantly played rock album. Excerpt: Stripping Led Zeppelin's famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet. But the wordless jacket also lent the album charisma. Fans hunted for hidden meanings, or, in failing to find them, sensed a strange reflection of their own mute refusal to communicate with the outside world. This helped to create one of the supreme paradoxes of rock history: an esoteric megahit, a blockbuster arcanum. Stripped of words and numbers, the album no longer referred to anything but itself: a concrete talisman that drew you into its world, into the frame. All the stopgap titles we throw at the thing are lame: Led Zeppelin IV, Untitled], Runes, Zoso, Four Symbols. In an almost Lovecraftian sense, the album was nameless, a thing from beyond, charged with manna. And yet this uncanny fetish was about as easy to buy as a jockstrap.
LC Classification Number
ML421.L4D38 2005
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