{"product_id":"20-jazz-funk-greats-9780826427939","title":"20 Jazz Funk Greats","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues that on \"Twenty Jazz Funk Greats\", Throbbing Gristle modelled a critically promiscuous way of relating to or inhabiting musical genre, where punk rock was passionate and direct, TG were arch and mysterious. This title explores the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, with key concepts, strategies and contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel brings erudition and clarity to the 33 1\/3 series with writing that's both meticulous and giddy...Daniel achieves a fantastic hat trick-- a love letter to an unacceptable band about their least-loved album in a book series that, until recently, was reserved only for acceptable albums.  Let the wrecking of civilization begin. -- Brian Joseph David * Eye Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eDrew Daniel employs a very rich lexicon, but chooses his  words judiciously. More importantly, he admits right up front to being a huge  TG fan boy, and that enthusiasm translates - even when he veers towards  head-scratching territory - particularly in some of his interview passages with  the band members (all of whom participated in the creation of his book). And by  focusing squarely on the group's music, not their sensationalistic trappings,  in a song-by-song analysis, he opens up the listening experience, both to  neophytes and diehards. I might never have imagined such a thing was possible,  but Daniel's musings on 20 Jazz Funk Greats have made me a committed Throbbing  Gristle fan. And that kind of connective tissue I can heartily endorse. * Weird  at my School Blog, KXEP *\u003cbr\u003eAlways perverse, Throbbing Gristle was perhaps never more so  than on their 1979 release, 20 Jazz Funk Greats. From the cover art, which at  first glance appears to your standard \"band outdoors\" snap, (but is actually  the group assembled at Britain's Beachy Head, a suicide hotspot) to the almost  \"normal\" synth pop found within, TG deliberately alters reality until it nearly  comes back around- nearly. Drew Daniel, one half of the electronic group  Matmos, draws on new interviews with the group to craft a look at one of  music's most extreme, intense and provocative artists, who delighted here in  subtle rearrangements of benign elements into darker statements, such as  captured field recordings of young children, mashed against a simple drum  machine to create \"Persuasion\". Daniel ably illustrates the sheer brilliance of  the record, in which TG turned down the volume but upped the intensity of their  message. At nearly 200 pages this is one of the longer \"33 1\/3\" releases, but  is such a captivating look at the legendary group of pop culture provocateurs  that you won't put it down. * The Big Takeover *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a  fascinating and thought-thorough accompaniment to the album, augmented by  interviews with all the group members, which uncovers a trove of pertinent unfamiliarities  in songs which feel like longstanding parts of the mental furniture after  nearly 30 years. -- David Stubbs * The Wire, UK *\u003cbr\u003eI fell into this book like Alice down an unfathomable dark  rabbit-hole. It reads like a riveting  detective novel, so concisely has Daniel (AKA one half of Matmos) woven  personal history (both TGs and his own), (un)reliable narration (thanks to the  members of TG themselves, contradictory bastards the lot of them), close  dissection (a forensic\/anatomical tank being particularly appropriate with TG)  and overarching pop-cultural critique...this tiny volume on only one album in the  massive TG oeuvre situates the group so powerfully in the appropriate  historical, personal, and musical contexts that I never wanted the book to  end. It's a vivid, revealing, and very  personal work that is beautifully written from start to finish, and my favorite  of the 33 1\/3s so far. * Warped Reality Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eDaniel is more than fully qualified to author this personal, historical and cultural deconstruction of TG's third album. -- George Taylor * Plan B, 2008 *\u003cbr\u003eDaniels is a lucid and engaging writer who captures the  struggle of a band that felt increasingly trapped by its own accomplishments  and confined by the conventions of a genre that it hadn't really wanted to  create. * Signal to Noise *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent reason for picking up or dusting off the album. -- Scott McKeating, 2008\u003cbr\u003eDaniel has delved into the album and dissects it here,  sony-by-song, with acute insight, and with some thought in providing the  context and meaning of each track. Daniel had access to all four band members  for the book, garnering valuable information in his conversations with each,  also drawing upon the band's historical record as documented in print. * Blurt  Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eDaniel writes evocatively of his own experience with \u003ci\u003e20 Jazz Funk Greats\u003c\/i\u003e, which he discovered as an adolescent looking for more extreme forms of music, but the best passages in the book are his Q\u0026amp;A’s with the band members, who remain as confrontational and confounding as ever. -- Stephen M. Deusner * Pitchfork *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866025537879,"sku":"9780826427939","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780826427939.jpg?v=1722276683","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/20-jazz-funk-greats-9780826427939","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}