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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PINK FLOYD The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world’s most important and successful bands. For the frst time, this Handbook will ‘tear down the wall,’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the infuence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into fve parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd’s work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media/communication studies. Chris Hart is an independent author and researcher. Chris has been senior researcher on several international research projects, working with major global brands across Europe. Simon A. Morrison is a writer, academic and Programme Leader for Music Journalism at the University of Chester. ROUTLEDGE MUSIC HANDBOOKS Routledge Music Handbooks are comprehensive, must-have surveys of a core sub-discipline that address landmarks in the feld, but also map out the emerging critical terrain and are aimed at the library market. Handbooks introduce fundamental topics and ideas, delineate the diversity and complexity of the subject, and stimulate dialogue among scholars and students approaching the topic from divergent backgrounds. Handbooks should defne the current state of theory and research in the feld and create a foundation for future scholarship and study. THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK TO MUSIC UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION, 1938–1945 Propaganda, Myth and Reality Edited by David Fanning, Erik Levi THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MUSIC SIGNIFICATION Edited by Esti Sheinberg, William P. Dougherty THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK TO SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC EDUCATION Edited by Ruth Wright, Geir Johansen, Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, Patrick Schmidt THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF WOMEN’S WORK IN MUSIC Edited by Rhiannon Mathias THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PINK FLOYD Edited by Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison For more information about this series, please visit: WWW.ROUTLEDGE.COM/ROUTLEDGE-MUSIC-HANDBOOKS/BOOK-SERIES/RMH See also Routledge Music Companions: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Music-Companions/book-series/MUSCOMP THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PINK FLOYD Edited by Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison Cover image: @ Pixabay.com First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison individual chapters, the contributors The right of Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison to be identifed as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifcation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hart, Chris, editor. | Morrison, Simon A., editor. Title: The Routledge handbook to Pink Floyd / edited by Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison. Description: [01.] | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge music handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifers: LCCN 2022015530 (print) | LCCN 2022015531 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367338275 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032335438 (paperback) | ISBN 9780367338282 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Pink Floyd (Musical group) | Rock music—History and criticism. | Psychedelic rock music—History and criticism. Classifcation: LCC ML421.P6 R68 2022 (print) | LCC ML421.P6 (ebook) | DDC 782.42166092/2—dc23/eng/20220331 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022015530 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022015531 ISBN: 978-0-367-33827-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-33543-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-33828-2 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9780367338282 Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of tables and fgures ix List of contributors xii Acknowledgements xvi Introduction: ‘What happened to the post-war dream?’ The story of Pink Floyd 1 Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison Companions to the albums of Pink Floyd and sources on Pink Floyd 25 Chris Hart PART I Performance and sound 47 1 A cartographical companion to listening to and understanding the songs of Pink Floyd 49 Chris Hart 2 A saucerful of secrets: Pink Floyd, free improvisation and collective composition 73 John Encarnacao 3 David Gilmour: defning the ‘melodic’ guitarist 89 Richard Perks v Contents 4 Planet Floyd: the evolution of Pink Floyd’s live performances 111 David Pattie 5 Back to the UFO: Pink Floyd, The Division Bell tour (1994) and the retrofed aesthetics of psychedelia 125 Kimi Kärki PART II Media, reception and fandom 139 6 Original soundtracks: Pink Floyd in the movies 141 Philippe Gonin 7 ‘Us and them’: Pink Floyd and the British music media 157 Simon A. Morrison 8 Visual coverscapes: why Pink Floyd album covers don’t have types 172 Cinla Seker with Chris Hart 9 Pink Floyd memories and memorability: ‘a personal essay on fandom and collecting’ 191 Bob Follen PART III Genre 209 10 In search of space (rock): Pink Floyd and genre formation in popular music 211 Tico Romao 11 ‘On the Run’: the birth of electronic dance music? 226 Jim J. Mason 12 More punk than Pink: Pink Floyd’s relationship with 1970s UK punk 242 Martin James 13 Pink Floyd: the musical elements 257 David Detmer vi Contents PART IV Periods of Pink Floyd’s work 273 14 The psychedelic self at play: re-reading whimsy in the early music of Pink Floyd 275 James Barrett 15 Legacy recre/ation: mining the elements in the archive of The Early Years box set 293 Rob Chapman 16 ‘Cruising for a bruising’: how The Dark Side of the Moon made Pink Floyd successful beyond their wildest dreams and instigated their downfall 306 Daryl Easlea 17 Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and the stage theory of grief 318 Gilad Cohen 18 ‘A certain unease in the air’: transitional aspects of Pink Floyd’s Animals 338 Edward Macan 19 Behind The Wall: a tool for condemning totalitarianism 351 Jean-René Larue 20 Hey you! subjectivity and the ideological repressive state apparatuses in Pink Floyd’s The Wall 369 Tina Richardson 21 Truth and manipulation in Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut 384 Glenn Fosbraey PART V Aesthetics and Subjectivity 401 22 Meadows, relics, and Victorian dolls’ houses: places, ephemera, and the unreal realities of Pink Floyd 403 Peter Hughes Jachimiak 23 The Pink Floyd Intensity: humanity, aesthetics and the breathless fan 423 Robert Wilsmore vii Contents 24 The cultural legacy of Syd Barrett’s English pastoral 438 Simon Gwyn Roberts 25 Temporal structuration in Pink Floyd’s The Wall 449 Vesa-Matti Sarenius, Marian Tumanyan and Chris Hart 26 A temporal journey through Pink Floyd’s music 464 Gilad Cohen Pink Floyd: Selective Chronology of Relevant Events 484 Compiled by Chris Hart Index 492 viii TABLES AND FIGURES Tables 1.1 Albums with songs from the fve phases of Pink Floyd 54 1.2 Nostalgia – key themes, referents and lyric extracts 56 1.3 Lament – key themes, referents and lyric extracts 60 1.4 Trauma – key themes, referents and lyric extracts 65 2.1 Group compositions on Pink Floyd’s albums, 1967–1983 84 3.1 Timbral variation of guitar tracks throughout The Division Bell 95 25.1 Present, past and future in the album and motion picture of The Wall 453 Figures 3.1 Opening of guitar solo to ‘Money,’ illustrating ‘call and response’ 96 3.2 Excerpt from ‘Speak to Me/Breathe,’ illustrating ‘vocal-esque’ phrasing 97 3.3 Opening section of guitar solo in ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,’ illustrating use of 9th over tonic minor chord 98 3.4 Excerpt from outro guitar solo in ‘Pigs (Three Diferent Ones),’ illustrating use of 9th on tonic minor chord 98 3.5 Opening four bars of frst guitar solo in ‘Comfortably Numb,’ illustrating use of arpeggiated triads 99 3.6 Excerpt from guitar solo in ‘Time,’ illustrating an alternative use of arpeggiated triads 99 3.7 Graphic representation of pitch against time for frst 20 bars of fnal guitar solo in ‘Dogs’ 100 3.8 ‘Melodic functions’ and ‘levels of impact’ assumed by Gilmour 105 5.1 Poster advertising two additional performances at Earls Court, London, 1994 126 5.2 Earls Court, Division Bell tour 1994. Original concert ticket 130 8.1 Alex Steinweiss cover, Nat King Cole’s The King Cole Trio album cover, 1945 (original in bright primary colours) 173 8.2 Graphical grid showing the basic elements of Dark Side of the Moon sleeve 180 8.3 Battersea Power Station – an imposing cathedral to power 183 ix
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