Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, erotically charged style, his hallucinatory hagiographies and excoriating take-downs reveal an iconoclast unafraid to tell it like it is. To his journalism he brought the talent of a great a renegade Beat poet, and his essays, reviews and scattered notes convey the electric thrill of a music junky indulging the habit of a lifetime. As Greil Marcus writes in his introduction, 'What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
• Collaboration: Marcus Greil (Editeur), Greil Marcus (Introduction), Marcus Greil (Introduction)
• Edition: Serpent's Tail
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 04.12.2014
• EAN: 9781781252772
• ISBN: 978-1-78125-277-2
• Pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 27 mm
• Thèmes: Serpent's Tail Classics; Serpent's Tail Classics
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Général, dictionnaires; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Essays, Pop Music, Popular Music