When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison - Couverture rigide

Marcus, Greil

 
9781586488215: When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison
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ISBN 10 : 158648821X ISBN 13 : 9781586488215
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2010

Synopsis

“Van Morrison,” says Greil Marcus, “remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.” When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was rereleased as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison's success and in people's appreciation (or lack of it) of his music, make Van Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus, one of America's most dedicated cultural critics.

This book is Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician and his song.

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À propos de l?auteur

Greil Marcus is the author of The Shape of Things to Come, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old Weird America; a 20th anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published last year by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column “Real Life Rock Top 10” appears regularly in The Believer. He lives in Berkeley.

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Éditeur
PublicAffairs
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
158648821X
ISBN 13 
9781586488215
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781586489526: When That Rough God Goes Riding

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ISBN 10 :  1586489526 ISBN 13 :  9781586489526
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2011
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