Re-make/Re-model: Becoming Roxy Music - Couverture souple

Bracewell, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306814005 ISBN 13 : 9780306814006

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2008

Synopsis

Re-make/Re-model The generously illustrated inside account of how Bryan Ferry invented the legendary rock band Roxy Music, by perhaps the most accomplished writer of his generation (GQ) Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Boston Phoenix
"Re-make/Re-model is the Roxy Book of Genesis Bracewell is meticulous in his coverage of the many aesthetic inputs that made up the Roxy world."
New York Times Book Review 5/4/08
“Rejecting the standard album-tour-drugs-sex hagiography, Bracewell focuses on British art, fashion and academia in the 1950s and ’60s, and on how the cultural scene inspired several brilliant products of that milieu to create Roxy Music...Part oral history, part academic thesis, Re-Make/Re-Model essentially deconstructs the cast and credits of Roxy Music’s wildly inventive 1972 debut album...Creative connections to Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, David Hockney and others make this tale engaging.”Time Out New York, 6/5/08
“Offers way more insight than any career-trajectory doorstop ever could have...Chewier than garden-variety pop-music books...Bracewell is the first Roxy biographer to enjoy the full approval of band members, access to their inner circle and the opportunity to nab dozens of killer quotes from people in myriad disciplines...He couldn’t be more in his element, and it shows...Not just an invigorating cultural history of late-midcentury England but a handbook for aspiring aesthetes.”

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1972 an English rock band released its first album to instant critical acclaim: Roxy Music. Here was a group that looked as though it came not only from another era, but also from another planet-a band in which art, fashion, and music would combine to create, in Bryan Ferry's words, “above all, a state of mind.” Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay, and Phil Manzanera, Re-Make/Re-Model tells how Pop Art, the 1960s underground, and Swinging London were transformed into a unique sound and look-theatrical, arch, literate, clever, sexy, thrilling. In the tradition of Jean Stein and George Plimpton's Edie, Re-Make/Re-Model is the story of extraordinary individuals and exceptional creativity-and nothing less than the history of an era in music and pop culture.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0306814005
• ISBN 13: 9780306814006
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320