Roxy Music's Avalon
Simon A. Morrison
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Roxy Music's Avalon
Published
2021
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pages
152
ISBN-13
9781501355349
Description
"Having 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. The production and engineering imposed on Avalon confiscates 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 amour courtois insists. The backbeat cannot beat back nostalgia; it remains part of the architecture of Avalon, 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"--
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How many pages are in Roxy Music's Avalon?
This edition of Roxy Music's Avalon has approximately 152 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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For most readers, Roxy Music's Avalon typically takes between 3h 10m and 2h 7m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 38,000 words and common reading speeds.
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The estimated word count for Roxy Music's Avalon is approximately 38,000 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
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Who is the author of Roxy Music's Avalon?
Roxy Music's Avalon was written by Simon A. Morrison.
When was Roxy Music's Avalon published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2021. The original work may have been published on a different date.