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Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ian PenmanSeries:Semiotext(e) / Native AgentsPublish date:2025-05-20Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Semiotext(e)ISBN-13:9781635902532ISBN-10:1635902533UPC:9781635902532Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, Individual Composer & Musician, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.95 x 5.48 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCR9ADDFAW
A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.

Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle ?poque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit, and umbrella, Satie was a surrealist before surrealism and a conceptual artist before conceptual art. Friend of Cocteau and Debussy, Picabia and Picasso, Satie was always a few steps ahead of his peers at the apex of modernism. There's scarcely a turn in postwar music, both classical and popular, that Satie doesn't anticipate. Moving from the variety shows of Montmartre's Le Chat Noir to suburban Arcueil, from the Parisian demimonde to the artistic avant-garde, cult critic Ian Penman's masterful Erik Satie Three Piece Suite is an exhilarating and playful three-part study of this elusive and endlessly fascinating figure, published to mark the centenary of Satie's death.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Semiotext(e)ISBN-13:9781635902532ISBN-10:1635902533UPC:9781635902532Book Category:Music, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, Individual Composer & Musician, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.95 x 5.48 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCR9ADDFAW
Ian Penman is a British writer, music journalist, and critic. He began his career at the NME in 1977, later contributing to various publications including The Face, Arena, Tatler, Uncut, Sight & Sound, The Wire, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and City Journal. He is the author of the collections Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Manias (1998) and It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track (2019). His first original book, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors (Semiotext(e), 2023), won the RSL Ondaatje Prize for Literature and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2024.
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