At three years old, C.L. Johnson heard Prince’s “Little Red Corvette” and turned toward a sound that would follow him for the rest of his life.
Born three months premature with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, Johnson grew up inside a body often lifted, positioned, assisted, and interpreted by others. Prince’s music reached him differently. It did not need a ramp, a transfer, or permission from his muscles. It came through the air and opened a private world where rhythm, faith, longing, grief, desire, and self-definition could begin to speak.
In Elephants and Flowers: Finding Myself Through Prince, Johnson traces a lifelong relationship with Prince’s music, not as celebrity worship, but as spiritual formation. From childhood discovery in small-town Minnesota to grief after his grandmother’s death, from a suicidal crisis interrupted by “Purple Rain” to the complicated dignity of living inside disability and dependence, Prince’s work becomes a companion through the hardest and holiest questions of Johnson’s life.
Intimate, reflective, and spiritually searching, Elephants and Flowers is a memoir about music as survival, disability as embodied complexity, fandom as community, grief as love in motion, and the long practice of learning to answer with a life of one’s own.
Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
Vendeur : California Books, Miami, FL, Etats-Unis
Etat : New. N° de réf. du vendeur I-9798996877522
Quantité disponible : Plus de 20 disponibles
Vendeur : PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, Etats-Unis
PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. N° de réf. du vendeur L2-9798996877522
Quantité disponible : Plus de 20 disponibles
Vendeur : PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Royaume-Uni
PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. N° de réf. du vendeur L2-9798996877522
Quantité disponible : Plus de 20 disponibles
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - At three years old, C.L. Johnson heard Prince's 'Little Red Corvette' and turned toward a sound that would follow him for the rest of his life. Born three months premature with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, Johnson grew up inside a body often lifted, positioned, assisted, and interpreted by others. Prince's music reached him differently. It did not need a ramp, a transfer, or permission from his muscles. It came through the air and opened a private world where rhythm, faith, longing, grief, desire, and self-definition could begin to speak. In Elephants and Flowers: Finding Myself Through Prince, Johnson traces a lifelong relationship with Prince's music, not as celebrity worship, but as spiritual formation. From childhood discovery in small-town Minnesota to grief after his grandmother's death, from a suicidal crisis interrupted by 'Purple Rain' to the complicated dignity of living inside disability and dependence, Prince's work becomes a companion through the hardest and holiest questions of Johnson's life. Intimate, reflective, and spiritually searching, Elephants and Flowers is a memoir about music as survival, disability as embodied complexity, fandom as community, grief as love in motion, and the long practice of learning to answer with a life of one's own. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996877522
Quantité disponible : 2 disponible(s)