{"product_id":"9781623565428","title":"Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy","description":"Author: Graves,Kirk Walker\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781623565428\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Jun 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released \u003ci\u003eMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF)\u003c\/i\u003e in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance of \u003ci\u003eThe College Dropout\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) to the operatic narcissism of \u003ci\u003eMBDTF\u003c\/i\u003e, tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. In a cloud-based and on-demand culture   o a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity   o West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003ecalls \"the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music.\" In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king.\u003cbr\u003e Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on \u003ci\u003eMBDTF\u003c\/i\u003e, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future   o very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity   o \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style-normal\"\u003eMBDTF\u003c\/i\u003e is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era's most dynamic artist.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46616144511134,"sku":"UBD-9781623565428","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781623565428.jpg?v=1773810254","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781623565428","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}