The Boy Who Cried Freebird - Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling

Zusatztext "...you will love every page of THE BOY WHO CRIED FREEBIRD." Informationen zum Autor Mitch Myers is a writer, historian, and psychologist based in Chicago and New York City. His unique pop commentaries have been broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered and published in a variety of journals, magazines, and websites. He also maintains the Shel Silverstein Archive in Chicago. Klappentext Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short fiction, straight journalism, comic interludes, memoirs, serious artist profiles, satire, and related fan-boy hokum—including the classic stories he first narrated on NPR's All Things Considered . Focusing on iconic recordings, events, communities, and individuals, Myers riffs on Deadheads, sixties nostalgia, rock concert decorum, glockenspiels, and all manner of pop phenomena. From tales of rock-and-roll time travel to science fiction revealing Black Sabbath's power to melt space aliens, The Boy Who Cried Freebird is about music, culture, legend, and lore—all to be lovingly passed on to future generations. Zusammenfassung Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism! Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant! insightful! and wonderfully strange! this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short fiction! straight journalism! comic interludes! memoirs! serious artist profiles! satire! and related fan-boy hokum—including the classic stories he first narrated on NPR's All Things Considered . Focusing on iconic recordings! events! communities! and individuals! Myers riffs on Deadheads! sixties nostalgia! rock concert decorum! glockenspiels! and all manner of pop phenomena. From tales of rock-and-roll time travel to science fiction revealing Black Sabbath's power to melt space aliens! The Boy Who Cried Freebird is about music! culture! legend! and lore—all to be lovingly passed on to future generations. ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mitch Myers, Myers Mitch
• Editore: It Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9780061139024
• ISBN: 978-0-06-113902-4
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, interviste; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Rock and Roll, Rock, Music, Sociology, Popular Culture, Biography: general, Memoirs, History of Art, Biography: sport, Popular Music, Society and culture: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Music reviews and criticism, Biography: arts and entertainment, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Popular Culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Entertainment & Performing Arts, ART: Popular Culture, MUSIC: General, MUSIC: Genres & Styles / Rock, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Rich & Famous, MUSIC: Printed General, MUSIC: History & Criticism, performing arts/music;library;music;2007;2008;2009, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs