{"product_id":"roxy-musics-avalon-paperback","title":"Roxy Music's Avalon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon A. Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ways with Eno, electric violinist Eddie Jobson, and drummer Paul Thompson, foreswearing the broken-sounding synthesizers played by kitchen utensils, the chance-based elements, and the maquillage of previous albums. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe production and engineering imposed on \u003ci\u003eAvalon \u003c\/i\u003econfiscates emotion and replaces it with an acoustic simulacrum of courtliness, polished manners, and codes of etiquette. The seducer sings seductive music about seduction, but decorum is retained, as \u003ci\u003eamour courtois\u003c\/i\u003e insists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe backbeat cannot beat back nostalgia; it remains part of the architecture of \u003ci\u003eAvalon\u003c\/i\u003e, an album that creates an allusive sheen. Be nostalgic, by all means, but embrace that feeling's falseness, because nostalgia-whether inspired by medieval Arthuriana or 1940s film noir repartee or a 1980s drug-induced high-deceives. Nostalgia defines our fantasies and our (not Ferry's) essential artifice.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e is a music historian specializing in 20th-century music. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBolshoi Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eLina and Serge\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). The latter was featured on BBC Radio 4 (as \"Book of the Week\"), BBC World News (TV), and WYNC. He has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.5 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699429609535,"sku":"9781501355349","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3c37d9eb9e8d6fccf3b3c746b30469e1.webp?v=1765013468","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/roxy-musics-avalon-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}