The Concept Album as Visual-SonicTextual Spectacle: The Transmedial Storyworld of Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto

This paper studies the elaboration of the concept album by means of multimodal promotional strategies that include the concert tour, music videos, books, as well as other digital and print materials. Adopting the perspective that the meaning of a concept album emerges in and through a potentially co...

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Main Author: Lori Burns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2016-01-01
Series:IASPM Journal
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Online Access:https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/783/pdf