Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 - The Year''s Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country and More

Informationen zum Autor Peter Guralnick's books include the prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love ; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Feel Like Going Home , Lost Highway , and Sweet Soul Music ; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson ; and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke . Guralnick won a Grammy for his liner notes for Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club , wrote and co-produced the documentary Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll , and wrote the scripts for the Grammy-winning documentary Sam Cooke/Legend and Martin Scorsese's blues documentary Feel Like Going Home . His 2015 book Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year, awarded by the Biographers International Organization. His most recent book is Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing . Klappentext This first volume of a new annual series celebrates the year's best American writing about rock, jazz, country, and other genres of music. The 30 selections draw from 100 sources, from "The New Yorker" to "Spin". Zusammenfassung The inaugural volume of an exciting new annual series--Da Capo Best Music Writing. A Da Capo Original: Best-selling author Peter Guralnick offers his choices for some of the most extraordinary music writing of the year.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Guralnick, Peter Wolk Guralnick, Guralnick Peter, Douglas Wolk, Wolk Douglas
• Assisted by: Peter Guralnick (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2000
• EAN: 9780306809996
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80999-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Da Capo Best Music Writing; Da Capo Best Music Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Essays, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, English, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, REFERENCE / Yearbooks & Annuals, REFERENCE / Almanacs, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Songwriting, MUSIC / Essays, United States of America, USA, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs, Theory of music and musicology