Paul Simon - An American Tune

Informationen zum Autor Cornel Bonca is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches courses in American literature, critical theory, and rock 'n' roll history. His essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in two dozen publications, among them Salon, The New York Observer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacaranda , and Modern Language Studies , where he's written on the beat poets, Bruce Springsteen, The National, The Airborne Toxic Event, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth, and Don DeLillo. His last book was Paul Simon: An American Tune . He lives in Altadena, CA with his wife and daughter. Klappentext Paul Simon: An American Tune is the first full-scale survey of the career of one of the most honored musicians and songwriters in American history. Starting out as a teeny-bopper rocker in the late 1950s, Paul Simon went on to form the most influential pop duo of the 1960s-Simon & Garfunkel-and after their break-up in 1970, launch one of the most successful, varied, and surprising solo careers of our time. In Paul Simon: An American Tune, Cornel Bonca considers Simon's vast trove of songs in the biographical and cultural context in which he wrote them: from the pop cultural revolution of the 1960s which Simon himself helped to create, the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s, the turn toward world music in the 1980s that gave the world the monumental Graceland, to the intimate personal turn his music took in the millennial era. Analyzing Simon's albums one by one, often song by song, Bonca provides a deep and artful exploration of the work of one of today's major songwriters. Offering a lucid and vivid portrait of an astonishing decades-long career, Paul Simon: An American Tune will interest a wide audience, from Simon fans to students and scholars of American popular culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor Foreword Timeline Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: A Kid From Queens Chapter Two: The Struggle for Originality: 1957-1970 Chapter Three: In The Age's Most Uncertain Hours: 1970-1977 Chapter Four: Mistakes On Top of Mistakes On Top of Mistakes: 1978-1983 Chapter Five: Days of Miracle and Wonder: 1984-1998 Chapter Six: Thinking About God: 1998-2014 Further Reading Further Listening Index About the Author ...

Product details

• Authors: Cornel Bonca
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780810895409
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9540-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture; Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield; Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture; Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Rock, Komponisten und Songwriter, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Pop Musik, Weltmusik und regionale Musik, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Ethnic, World Music, Pop Music, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Other global and regional music styles