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ABSTRACT
Different from legacy acts, who rely on playing the hits, Radiohead bring a progressive spin to the legacy act phenomenon and the interplay with a devoted fanbase. Through analyses of music, lyrics, videos, and interviews, this study shows how the British art rock band, over a span of almost four decades, has communicated a profile development to its listeners from traditional rock patterns to their perfection, surpassing, and deconstruction. Congruently, the evaluation of online posts displays how fans mirror the group’s cutting-edge mode by quasi-identifying as music experts and assessing the band’s success of achieving the extraordinary in light of a future of rock music.
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Alexander Kroll
Alexander Kroll is a literary and media scholar and journalist. With his book on the aesthetics of television series after 9/11 (TV-Serienästhetik der Grenzüberschreitung), published by Königshausen & Neumann in 2019, he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt. Alexander is currently an affiliated scholar at the Fiction Meets Science research program by the Universities of Oldenburg and Bremen and has worked as a researcher at the University of Konstanz. For his master’s studies in Frankfurt and London he wrote a thesis on music videos. He has been writing about popular culture for print and online magazines for many years.