Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This essay provides an overview of the many themes that Steely Dan at 50 observes by revisiting the group’s history and distinct musical concept as crafted by Steely Dan’s architects, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Considering Steely Dan’s music and its wide-ranging effects, I historicize their relationship to other genres and their legendary fixation on recording perfection, while I also draw connections to other aspects of the 1970s American culture in which they attained fame. Finally, I contemplate Steely Dan’s relationship to audience across identities, thinking intersectionally to interrogate the slipperiness of their ongoing engagement with race and gender.
Source: Rock Music Studies
Author: Michael Borshuk
Institution: Texas Tech University
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4200560841