Table Of ContentTHE 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 frst time, this Handbook
will ‘tear down the wall,’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the infuence
of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their
work. Divided into fve 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.
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.
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THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF
PINK FLOYD
Edited by
Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison
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First published 2023
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Names: Hart, Chris, editor. | Morrison, Simon A., editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook to Pink Floyd / edited by Chris Hart and
Simon A. Morrison.
Description: [01.] | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. |
Series: Routledge music handbooks | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifers: LCCN 2022015530 (print) | LCCN 2022015531 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367338275 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032335438 (paperback) |
ISBN 9780367338282 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Pink Floyd (Musical group) | Rock music—History and
criticism. | Psychedelic rock music—History and criticism.
Classifcation: LCC ML421.P6 R68 2022 (print) | LCC ML421.P6
(ebook) | DDC 782.42166092/2—dc23/eng/20220331
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022015530
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ISBN: 978-1-032-33543-8 (pbk)
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CONTENTS
List of tables and fgures ix
List of contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction: ‘What happened to the post-war dream?’ The story of
Pink Floyd 1
Chris Hart and Simon A. Morrison
Companions to the albums of Pink Floyd and sources on Pink Floyd 25
Chris Hart
PART I
Performance and sound 47
1 A cartographical companion to listening to and understanding the
songs of Pink Floyd 49
Chris Hart
2 A saucerful of secrets: Pink Floyd, free improvisation and collective
composition 73
John Encarnacao
3 David Gilmour: defning the ‘melodic’ guitarist 89
Richard Perks
v
Contents
4 Planet Floyd: the evolution of Pink Floyd’s live performances 111
David Pattie
5 Back to the UFO: Pink Floyd, The Division Bell tour (1994) and the
retrofed aesthetics of psychedelia 125
Kimi Kärki
PART II
Media, reception and fandom 139
6 Original soundtracks: Pink Floyd in the movies 141
Philippe Gonin
7 ‘Us and them’: Pink Floyd and the British music media 157
Simon A. Morrison
8 Visual coverscapes: why Pink Floyd album covers don’t have types 172
Cinla Seker with Chris Hart
9 Pink Floyd memories and memorability: ‘a personal essay on fandom
and collecting’ 191
Bob Follen
PART III
Genre 209
10 In search of space (rock): Pink Floyd and genre formation in
popular music 211
Tico Romao
11 ‘On the Run’: the birth of electronic dance music? 226
Jim J. Mason
12 More punk than Pink: Pink Floyd’s relationship with 1970s UK punk 242
Martin James
13 Pink Floyd: the musical elements 257
David Detmer
vi
Contents
PART IV
Periods of Pink Floyd’s work 273
14 The psychedelic self at play: re-reading whimsy in the early music of
Pink Floyd 275
James Barrett
15 Legacy recre/ation: mining the elements in the archive of The Early
Years box set 293
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 306
Daryl Easlea
17 Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and the stage theory of grief 318
Gilad Cohen
18 ‘A certain unease in the air’: transitional aspects of Pink Floyd’s Animals 338
Edward Macan
19 Behind The Wall: a tool for condemning totalitarianism 351
Jean-René Larue
20 Hey you! subjectivity and the ideological repressive state apparatuses
in Pink Floyd’s The Wall 369
Tina Richardson
21 Truth and manipulation in Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut 384
Glenn Fosbraey
PART V
Aesthetics and Subjectivity 401
22 Meadows, relics, and Victorian dolls’ houses: places, ephemera, and
the unreal realities of Pink Floyd 403
Peter Hughes Jachimiak
23 The Pink Floyd Intensity: humanity, aesthetics and the breathless fan 423
Robert Wilsmore
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Contents
24 The cultural legacy of Syd Barrett’s English pastoral 438
Simon Gwyn Roberts
25 Temporal structuration in Pink Floyd’s The Wall 449
Vesa-Matti Sarenius, Marian Tumanyan and Chris Hart
26 A temporal journey through Pink Floyd’s music 464
Gilad Cohen
Pink Floyd: Selective Chronology of Relevant Events 484
Compiled by Chris Hart
Index 492
viii
TABLES AND FIGURES
Tables
1.1 Albums with songs from the fve phases of Pink Floyd 54
1.2 Nostalgia – key themes, referents and lyric extracts 56
1.3 Lament – key themes, referents and lyric extracts 60
1.4 Trauma – key themes, referents and lyric extracts 65
2.1 Group compositions on Pink Floyd’s albums, 1967–1983 84
3.1 Timbral variation of guitar tracks throughout The Division Bell 95
25.1 Present, past and future in the album and motion picture of The Wall 453
Figures
3.1 Opening of guitar solo to ‘Money,’ illustrating ‘call and response’ 96
3.2 Excerpt from ‘Speak to Me/Breathe,’ illustrating ‘vocal-esque’ phrasing 97
3.3 Opening section of guitar solo in ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,’
illustrating use of 9th over tonic minor chord 98
3.4 Excerpt from outro guitar solo in ‘Pigs (Three Diferent Ones),’ illustrating
use of 9th on tonic minor chord 98
3.5 Opening four bars of frst guitar solo in ‘Comfortably Numb,’ illustrating
use of arpeggiated triads 99
3.6 Excerpt from guitar solo in ‘Time,’ illustrating an alternative use of
arpeggiated triads 99
3.7 Graphic representation of pitch against time for frst 20 bars of fnal guitar
solo in ‘Dogs’ 100
3.8 ‘Melodic functions’ and ‘levels of impact’ assumed by Gilmour 105
5.1 Poster advertising two additional performances at Earls Court, London, 1994 126
5.2 Earls Court, Division Bell tour 1994. Original concert ticket 130
8.1 Alex Steinweiss cover, Nat King Cole’s The King Cole Trio album cover,
1945 (original in bright primary colours) 173
8.2 Graphical grid showing the basic elements of Dark Side of the Moon sleeve 180
8.3 Battersea Power Station – an imposing cathedral to power 183
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