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Coverscaping. Discovering Album Aesthetics. Edited by Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes. 210 sider, 22 x 22 cm. Med 51 illustrationer (44 i farver). Museum Tusculanums Forlag. Udgivet 19/2 2010.

En antologi med analyser af pladecovere og deres udformning. Med fokus på plade- og cd-omslagenes semiotik, poetik og retorik er denne antologi et eksempel på seriøs akademisk forskning i en hidtil uudforsket kunstform. Bogens bidrag giver mange forskelligartede analyser af hvad man kan kalde den visuelle komponent af indspillet musik.
Analyserne spænder fra detailanalyser af enkelte pladeomslag til mere teoretiske og filosofiske undersøgelser af den æstetiske form og kunstneriske værdi af pladeomslag: fra blandt andet politisk performance og maskulinitet i Bruce Springsteens Born in the U.S.A. til forbindelsen mellem malerkunst og musik i Ornette Colemans Free Jazz. Andre af bogens analyser af pladeomslag beskæftiger sig blandt andet med Neil Young: Greendale, De La Soul: De La Soul is Dead, KISS: Alive!, The Clash: London Calling, Slade: Slade in Flame, Die Form: Ad Infinitum, In Strict Confidence: Holy, Christian Death: Love and Hate, The Empire Hideous: Say Your Prayers, Voltaire: Almost Human.
Som multimedial kunstform placerer pladeomslaget sig i et interessant krydsfelt mellem musik og billede, mellem det auditive og det visuelle. Dette peger på en nær forbindelse mellem de musikalske, visuelle og tekstuelle komponenter i den helhed som omslaget udgør.
"An underlying premise for this collection of essays is that a record is af composite medium, made up not solely of the music itself but also of graphic material and printed text. As such, the music disc is a cultural form which lends itself remarkably well to interdisciplinary and intermedial types of analyses. However, not only have there hitherto been few - if any - scholarly publications devoted to the examination and interpretation of cover art, there has also been scant critical awareness of the difference between music as an art form and the album as a unique medium that, in transmitting that art form, simultaneously engenders a semiotic configuration and an aesthetic experience that is not reducible to music alone. [...] When we set out to produce an anthology of essays that in diverse ways address the issue of the album cover, we did not assume that this was a separate, visual entity that could be easily detached from the musical object. Rather, it was precisely the realization that cover art should in fact be considered an inextricable part of this composite medium that convinced us that a concerted effort to expand our knowledge of the pictorial aspect of recorded music was much needed"(fra Introduction).
Asbjørn Grønstad er professor i visuel kultur ved Universitetet i Bergen.
Øyvind Vågnes er dr.art. og postdoc ved Universitetet i Bergen.

UDDRAG AF INDHOLD: Bruce's Butt: Masculinity, Patriotism, and Rock's Ecstatic Body. Remediation of Album Art: Neil Young's Greendale. Envisioning Music in the Digital Environment. Self-made CD: Texture and Narrative in Small-Run DIY CD Production. Re-Presenting Mixed Tapes and CDs. "How Near you Stand to Me": The Blues, Blacks and Whites of The Smiths' Record Sleeves. Frame or Be Framed: This is Not De La Soul. KISS: Alive! - An Iconographical Approach. Stars as Human Beings - and Timeless Icons: Pennie Smith's and Anton Corbijn's Artist Portraits. Profaning the Sacred: Goth Iconography, Iconoclasm, and Subcultural Resistance. Painting Sound, Playing Color: The Multiple Voices of Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz and Jackson Pollock's White Light. Interview with Dan Nadel. Select Bibliography.

FORFATTERE: Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes, Colleen J. Sheehy, Nicole R. Brown, Anne Galperin, Eve Klein, Gavin Steingo, Andrew Warnes, Jonathan Silverman, Ian Chapman, Sigrid Lien, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Hilary Moore.

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