Zuleika Beaven - Mute Records: The Historical and Artistic Contexts of Britains Key Independent Record Label

Mute Records

Mute Records

Artists, Business, History

Edited by Zuleika Beaven, Marcus ODair and Richard Osborne

Contents

Thanks to Daniel Miller, David McGinnis, Sinead McCloskey and all at Mute; Zoe Miller at Zopf; Nadia Coppelman at Middlesex University; and Leah Babb-Rosenfeld at Bloomsbury.

The editors and publisher gratefully acknowledge the permission granted to reproduce the following copyright material in this book:

Anglia written by M. Fras, D. Knez and I. Novak, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Blind Eyes written by F. Tovey and P. Balmer, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Blind Lemon Jefferson written by N. Cave, B. Bargeld, B. Adamson and M. Harvey, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Caravan Girl written by A. Goldfrapp and W. Gregory, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

The Circus written by A. Bell and V. Clarke, courtesy SM Publishing (UK) Ltd).

Collapsing New People written by F. Tovey, D. Simmonds, D. Rogers, N. Cash and B. Frost, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Cologne Cerrone Houdini written by A. Goldfrapp and W. Gregory, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! written by N. Cave, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Faith Healer lyrics by M. Stewart, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Fireside Favourite written by F. Tovey, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Hideaway written by A. Bell and V. Clarke, courtesy SM Publishing (UK) Ltd).

Higgs Boson Blues written by N. Cave and W. Ellis, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Hypnotized written by M. Stewart, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

I Discover Love written by F. Tovey, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Ideal World written by F. Tovey, B. Frost and N. Cash, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Lady Shave written by F. Tovey and D. Miller, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Little Bird, written by A. Goldfrapp and W. Gregory, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

A Lousy Sum of Nothing written by A. Bell and V. Clarke, courtesy SM Publishing (UK) Ltd.

Mammon lyrics by M. Stewart, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

One Mans Meat written by F. Tovey, D. Simmonds and J. Sackett, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Ooh La La written by A. Goldfrapp and W. Gregory, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

Ride a White Horse written by A. Goldfrapp, W. Gregory and N. Batt, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited / Wixen Music UK Ltd.

Stand Up written by F. Tovey, D. Rogers and D. Simmonds, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

State of the Nation written by F. Tovey, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Stranger written by A. Goldfrapp and W. Gregory, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

Stranger written by M. Stewart, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Strict Machine written by A. Goldfrapp, W. Gregory and N. Batt, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited / Wixen Music UK Ltd.

Swallow It written by F. Tovey, D. Simmonds and P. Balmer, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Train written by A. Goldfrapp and W. Gregory, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

Tupelo written by N. Cave, M. Harvey and B. Adamson, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

T.V.O.D written by D. Miller, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Twist written by A. Goldfrapp and W. Gregory, courtesy Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

We Are Time written by M. Stewart, S. Underwood, G. Sager and B. Smith, courtesy TSM UK Publishing.

Words Disobey Me written by M. Stewart, S. Underwood, G. Sager and B. Smith, courtesy TSM UK Publishing.

Whistleblowers written by S. Avsenik, M. Kolenc and I. Novak, courtesy Mute Song Limited.

Richard Osbornes chapter Moby, minstrelsy and Melville is an adapted and updated version of Blackface Minstrelsy from Melville to Moby, first published in Critical Quarterly , 48(1) (Spring 2006): 1425, and is published here with the permission of John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Zuleika Beaven is Senior Lecturer in Music Business and Arts Management at Middlesex University, where she runs the MA Arts Management and teaches on the undergraduate popular music and music business degrees. Her research focuses on musician work and identity in the commercial space, and the impact on it of emerging technologies.

Leon Clowes is a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield; his research topic is Burt Bacharachs (Un)easy Listening: A Model for Musicians from the Middlebrow. The chapter Got Any Gay Music? Londons Anti-Gay queer clubs 19952000 is part of Nocturnes: Popular Music and the Night due to be published in 2018. How can you sing a song if you have no voice? was included in Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music in 2017.

Ross Cole is a research fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where he works on popular and avant-garde music of the twentieth century. Prior to this, he held a temporary lectureship at Cambridge and was awarded the Faculty of Musics Teaching prize in 2016. He studied at Cambridge (PhD 2015), the University of York (MRes 2010) and the University of Oxford (BA 2009), where he received the Gibbs Prize. His work appears in a number of leading international journals including Ethnomusicology , Popular Music and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association .

Lourdes Nicole Crosby Garca is Associate Course Director teaching popular music history at Full Sail University, Florida, in the Music Production Department. She has published in the Popular Music Journal . Her research interests focus on how different cultures develop their own aesthetics in popular music, and how cultures appropriate and acculturate other peoples musical styles.

Glyn Davis is Reader in Screen Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author and editor of a number of books; most recently, he was one of the co-authors of Film Studies: A Global Introduction (2015). His writing has appeared in journals including Aniki , Cinema Journal , MIRAJ and Screen . Glyn is the Project Leader of Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures, a three-year European queer history project funded by HERA.