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Crowded House's Together Alone

Crowded House's Together Alone

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Availability:In StockContributor:Barnaby Smith, Jon Stratton (Editor), Jon Dale (Editor)Series:33 1/3 OceaniaPublish date:6/12/2025Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765105153UPC:9798765105153Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles, Australia & New ZealandBook Topic:RockSize:7.70 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC1A0TRN3V

Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Australasia's most successful and adored bands.

Fusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House's Together Alone (1993) was unprecedented in its Australasian context, and in the process of making this album, the group's sound transformed profoundly. Crowded House's Together Alone examines why Neil Finn took the daring decision to record amid the wilds of Karekare Beach, West Auckland, considers how British producer Youth impacted the band's dynamics, and places the album within a wider artistic context, expanding beyond pop.

The book also recounts author Barnaby Smith's visit to Karekare on the trail of Together Alone's atmospheric melancholy - a psychogeographic adventure exploring what it means to visit a landscape under the spell of the music it has inspired. A song-by-song analysis further explores the fragile alchemy that produced the most poetic statement in the Crowded House catalogue.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765105153UPC:9798765105153Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles, Australia & New ZealandBook Topic:RockSize:7.70 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC1A0TRN3V
Barnaby Smith is an award-winning writer, editor, critic, musician and poet based in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. He has written about music, art, literature and film for publications including The Quietus, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, NME and the ABC.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Barnaby Smith, Jon Stratton (Editor), Jon Dale (Editor)

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Barnaby Smith

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