The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd

The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world’s most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will ‘tear down the wall,’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd’s work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media/communication studies.

Introduction: "What Happened to the Post-War Dream?" The Story of Pink Floyd Companions to the Albums of Pink Floyd and Sources on Pink Floyd Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison PART I Performance & Sound 1 A Cartographical Companion to Listening and Understanding the Songs of Pink Floyd Chris Hart 2 A Saucerful of Secrets: Pink Floyd, Free Improvisation and Collective Composition John Encarnacao 3 David Gilmour: Defining the ‘Melodic’ Guitarist Richard Perks 4 Planet Floyd: The Evolution of Pink Floyd's Live Performances David Pattie 5 Back to the UFO: Pink Floyd, The Division Bell Tour (1994), and the Retrofied Aesthetics of Psychedelia Kimi Kärki PART 2 Media, Reception & Fandom 6 Original Soundtracks: Pink Floyd in the Movies Philippe Gonin 7 ‘Us and Them’: Pink Floyd and the British Music Media Simon A. Morrison 8 Visual Coverscapes: Why Pink Floyd Album Covers Don’t Have Types Cinla Seker with Chris Hart 9 Pink Floyd Memories and Memorability: 'A personal essay on fandom and collecting' Bob Follen PART 3 Genre 10 In Search of Space (Rock): Pink Floyd and Generic Formation in Popular Music Tico Romao 11 ‘On The Run’: The Birth of Electronic Dance Music? Jim J. Mason 12 More Punk than Pink: Pink Floyd’s Relationship with 1970s UK Punk Martin James 13 Pink Floyd: The Musical Elements David J. Detmer PART 4 Periods of Pink Floyd’s Work 14 The Psychedelic Self at Play: Re-reading Whimsy in the Early Music of Pink Floyd James Barrett 15 Legacy Recre/ation: Mining the Elements in the Archive of The Early Years Boxset Rob Chapman 16 Cruising for a ‘bruising’: How The Dark Side Of The Moon Made Pink Floyd Successful Beyond their Wildest Dreams and Instigated their Downfall Daryl Easlea 17 Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and the Stage Theory of Grief Gilad Cohen 18 ‘A certain unease in the air’: Transitional Aspects of Pink Floyd’s Animals Edward Macan 19 Behind The Wall: A Tool for Condemning Totalitarianism Jean-Rene Larue 20 Hey You! Subjectivity and the Ideological Repressive State Apparatuses in Pink Floyd’s The Wall Tina Richardson 21 Truth and Manipulation in Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut Glenn Fosbraey PART 5 Aesthetics & Subjectivity 22 ‘Meadows, Relics, and Victorian Dolls’ Houses – Places, Ephemera, and the Unreal Realities of Pink Floyd’ Peter Hughes Jachimiak 23 The Pink Floyd Intensity: Humanity, Aesthetics and the Breathless Fan Robert Wilsmore 24 The Cultural Legacy of Syd Barrett's English Pastoral Simon Gwyn Roberts 25 Temporal Structuration in Pink Floyd’s The Wall Vesa-Matti Sarenius, Marian Tumanyan and Chris Hart 26 A Temporal Journey Through Pink Floyd’s Music Gilad Cohen

Chris Hart is an independent author and researcher. Chris has been senior researcher on several international research projects, working with major global brands across Europe. Simon A. Morrison is a writer, academic and Programme Leader for Music Journalism at the University of Chester.