Portishead's Dummy

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An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential

• Portishead's Dummy available on March 20 2017 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">12.99
  
• ISBN bar code 9781441155825 ξ2 registered August 05 2018
  
• ISBN bar code 9781441155825 ξ3 registered May 24 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9781441155825 ξ1 registered September 23 2015
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 9781441155825
  

RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together interviews, impressions of time and place, cultural criticism, and a thorough exploration of the music itself. The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age.

^ RJ Wheaton (2011). Portishead's Dummy ISBN 9781441155825 (revised Oct 2015)
^ 33 1/3: Portishead's Dummy by R. J. Wheaton (2011, E-book) ISBN 9781441155825 (revised Jan 2019)
^ Portishead's Dummy VitalSource. ISBN 9781441155825 (revised Mar 2017)