Grammar of Rock - Art and Artlessness

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Theroux is an award-winning novelist, poet, and teacher whose prose works include Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual, Estonia, and the two artist monographs The Strange Case of Edward Gorey and The Enigma of Al Capp. His novel Darconville's Cat was chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 greatest post-war novels. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and children. Klappentext Novelist and critic Alexander Theroux analyzes the pop song. Zusammenfassung National Book Award nominee! critic and one of America's least compromisingsatirists! Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colorful languageof pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock. With his usual encyclopedic insights into the state of the modern lyric! Therouxfocuses on the state of language - the power of words and the nature of syntax -in the prose The Grammar of Rock. He analyzes its assaults on listeners'impulses by investigating singers' styles! pondering lunacies in lyrics! anddeconstructing the nature of diction and presentation in the language. This isthat rare book that positively evaluates the very nature of a pop song! and whyone over another has an effect on the listener.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Theroux, Robert R Crumb, Robert R. Crumb, Crumb Robert R, Alexander Theroux, Alexander Crumb Theroux, Theroux Alexander
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9781606996164
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-616-4
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Pop Music, Popular Music