- Title: Lecture - 'The Art of the Basement Tape: Pop Music from a Private Place'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 01/19/2004 - 01/19/2004
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
- Description: Albin Zak, School of Music
- Detailed Information: Albin Zak's most recent CD, An Average Day, is a collection of songs set to textures that invite listeners into an opulent sonic world. Its polished pop sound belies its origins in a suburban tri-level house, which saw the project from first cut to final mix.
Zak will talk about his music, its affinities, and the poetics of the homemade pop record.
Albin Zak is Associate Professor of musicology in the UM School of Music. His book, The Poetics of Rock, argues that recording is a distinctive compositional process, not merely a documentary one. He is now working on a book about 1950s rock and roll whose aim is to present a critical discographic history and to analyze developments in musical style and practice, audience response, the mass media, and cultural politics.
Artists-at-Work Series
