Description
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off explores the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic counterculture. It examines landmark psychedelic, new age, electronic dance, and ambient records, as well as related media discourses, that plotted the conventions of ambient music.
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: Highs for Highbrows? How We Got from Head Music to Ambient Music
Chapter 1: Inside Environments’s Psychedelic Psychological Sound
Chapter 2: Pacifica Radio’s Music from the Hearts of Space and the Spacious Sound of California’s New Age
Chapter 3: Brian Eno’s Ambivalent Ambiences
Chapter 4: Ambient EDM, or Dance Music That Isn’t Dance Music!
Coda
Bibliography
Selected Discography
Index
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