Coverscaping. Discovering Album Aesthetics

Coverscaping focuses on the semiotics, poetics, and rhetoric of album covers. Working from the assumption that record sleeves may represent a visual genre in its own right, the essays engage in various ways with what one might call the pictorial component of recorded music. The contributors run the whole gamut from close readings of individual covers to more theo¬retical or philosophical explorations of the aesthetic nature and artistic value of album covers.

Coverscaping aims to carve out an analytical space from which to reappraise the ever mutable relation between the visual and the auditory, thus contributing to a keener appreciation of the challenges which define the art and craft of the genre.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction (Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes)
Bruce?s Butt: Masculinity, Patriotism, and Rock?s Ecstatic Body (Colleen J. Sheehy)
Remediation of Album Art: Neil Young?s Greendale (Nicole R. Brown)
Envisioning Music in the Digital Environment (Anne Galperin)
Self-made CD: Texture and Narrative in Small-Run DIY CD Production (Eve Klein)
Re-Presenting Mixed Tapes and CDs (Gavin Steingo)
"How Near you Stand to Me": The Blues, Blacks and Whites of The Smiths? Record Sleeves (Andrew Warnes)
Frame or Be Framed: This is Not De La Soul (Jonathan Silverman)
KISS: Alive! An Iconographical Approach (Ian Chapman)
Stars as Human Beings -and Timeless Icons: Pennie Smith?s and Anton Corbijn?s Artist Portraits (Sigrid Lien)
Profaning the Sacred: Goth Iconography,Iconoclasm, and Subcultural Resistance (Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock)
Painting Sound, Playing Color: The Multiple Voices of Ornette Coleman?s Free Jazz and Jackson Pollock?s White Light (Hilary Moore)
Interview with Dan Nadel (Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes)
Notes on Contributors
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