Goodbye, Guns N' Roses: The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America's Most Polarizing Band - Couverture rigide

Tavana, Art

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1770415114 ISBN 13 : 9781770415119

Editeur : ECW Press,Canada, 2021

Synopsis

Goodbye, Guns N' Roses is a genre-rattling attempt to explain the appeal of America's most divisive rock band. While it includes uncharted history and the self-lacerating connoisseurship of a Guns N' Roses fetishist, it is not a recycled chronicle this book is a deconstruction of myth, one that blends high and low art sketches to examine how Guns N' Roses impacted popular culture. Unlike those who have penned other treatments of what might be considered a cliched subject, Art Tavana is not writing as a GNR patriot or former employee. His book aims to provide an untethered exploration that machetes through the jungle of propaganda camouflaging GNR's explosive appeal. After circling the band's three-decade plundering of American culture, Goodbye, Guns N' Roses uncovers a postmodern portrait that persuades its viewer to think differently about their symbolic importance. This is not a rock bio but a biography of taste that treats a former 'hair metal' band like a decomposing masterpiece. This is the first Guns N' Roses book written for everyone; from the Sunset Strip to a hyper-digital generation's connection to 'Woke Axl,' it is a pop investigation that dodges no bullets.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Art Tavana (he/him/his) is an award-winning writer and former columnist at LA Weekly and Playboy. He has written for Billboard, Pitchfork, Spin, The A.V. Club, Paste, Consequence of Sound, Arc Digital and Vice. He resides in the suburbs of Southern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ECW Press,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1770415114
• ISBN 13: 9781770415119
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible