Cover Story Volume 2: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art

Cover Story Volume 2: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art

Cover Story Volume Two: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art, the second installment in theÂ Cover StoryÂ series from Wax Poetics Books, continues a graphic narration of the vibrant subculture of record collecting through the art of the album cover. This volume focuses specifically on strange and bizarre record covers, selected by the staff ofÂ Wax PoeticsÂ and major collectors of musicâ€™s avant-garde.

TheÂ Cover StoryÂ series vividly explores an element of music culture that has withered with the advent of MP3s and digital downloading. Vinyl records tell their stories visually as much as they do aurally, and the record coverâ€”eye candy for the music loverâ€”speaks a language rooted in the environment and era of the music itself.Â Cover Story Volume Two: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album ArtÂ celebrates the products of musicâ€™s most eclectic and eccentric figuresâ€”those whose artistic visions were so absurd and grandiose, they often extended beyond the boundaries of the recording and onto the album covers themselves.
Country USA
Manufacturer Wax Poetics
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2010-06-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780979811036

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