[ecrea] Brian Eno- call for chapters

Call for Chapters


Brian Eno.


On the back of his published diary (/A Year with Swollen Appendices, 
/Faber 1996) Brian Eno describes himself variously as: a mammal, a 
father, an artist, a celebrity, a pragmatist, a computer- user, an 
interviewee, and a ‘drifting clarifier’. To this list we might add rock 
star (on the first two Roxy Music albums); the creator of lastingly 
influential music (/Another Green World/; / Music for Airports/); a 
trusted producer (for Talking Heads, U2, Coldplay and a host of other 
artists); the maker of large-scale video and installation artworks; a 
maker of apps and interactive software; and so on, and so on. All in 
all, he is one of the most feted and most influential musical figures of 
the past forty years (even though he himself has consistently downplayed 
his musical abilities, calling himself as an anti-musician on more than 
one occasion).

We are inviting proposals for an essay collection on all aspects of the 
work of this multi-faceted cultural figure. Potential topics for 
investigation might include-

Eno the anti-musician/ Eno the humourist.

Eno’s solo albums.

Eno & Gospel- Eno & spirituality.

Eno & the voice.

Eno & politics.

Eno the futurist.

Eno the arch-collaborator.

Eno and the media.

Eno: the Roxy years.

Eno and theory.

Eno and ambient music

Eno and generative music.

Eno the producer.

Eno the multimedia artist.

Proposals should be 250 words (for chapters of between 6,000-8,000 
words), and should be sent to

Sean Albiez (sean.albiez /at/ solent.ac.uk)

David Pattie: (d.pattie /at/ chester.ac.uk)