Begin the Begin - Couverture souple

Lurie, Robert Dean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1891241680 ISBN 13 : 9781891241680

Editeur : Verse Chorus Press, 2019

Synopsis

This first biography researched and written since R.E.M. broke up offers the most detailed account by far of their formative years. Robert Dean Lure provides insight into the band members' early lives, how they met, and their legendary debut show, as well as their experiences touring out of the back of a van, their initial recordings, and their shrewdly paced rise to world fame. In Luries biography, the people and places of the South are crucial to the R.E.M. story, in ways much more complex and interesting than have been presented thus far. He explores the myriad ways in which the bands adopted hometown of Athens, Georgia, and the South in general, have shaped its members and the character and style of their art. The South is more than the background to this story; it plays a major role. The creative ferment that erupted in Athens and gripped many of its young inhabitants in the late 70s and early 80s drew on regional traditions of outsider art and general cultural out-thereness, giving rise to a free-spirited music scene that produced the B-52s and Pylon, and laid the ground for R.E.M.s subsequent breakout success. Lurie has tracked down and interviewed numerous figures in the bands history who were under-represented in or even absent from earlier biographies, and they contribute previously undocumented stories as well as casting a fresh light on the familiar narrative.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Dean Lurie's other books include "No Certainly Attached: Steve Kilbey and the Church" (2009) and "We Can Be Heroes: The Radical Individualism of David Bowie" (2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verse Chorus Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1891241680
• ISBN 13: 9781891241680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible