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Listening to Van Morrison

Autor: Greil Marcus

Número de Páginas: 210

'Van Morrison,' says Greil Marcus, 'remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.' When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was re-released as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison's success and in people's appreciation (or lack of it) of his music, make Van Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus, one of America's most dedicated cultural critics. This book is Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician and his song.

Van Morrisson

Autor: Didier Delinotte

I'll Take You There

Autor: Bill Friskics-warren

Número de Páginas: 292

The urge to connect with that which transcends our experience, be it a higher power, another person or some artistic ideal or aspect of nature, is one of the things that makes us human. People view the object of this quest, as well as what it means to achieve it, differently. Yet regardless of how it is understood, the urge to participate in or belong to something greater and more lasting than ourselves—a feeling born of an awareness of our mortality—is what defines us as spiritual beings. Though often dismissed as ephemeral or, worse, demonic, popular music has given voice to this quest for transcendence since its beginnings. Pop singers are rarely as outwardly spiritual as, say, their gospel counterparts; they're forever pointing beyond themselves, though, be it to some better future, some higher ideal, or to some vision of deliverance. Fontella Bass's "Rescue Me," the Four Tops's "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross," Afrika Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat," and U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" are but a handful of popular recordings from the past few decades that express a longing for something more. What, other than...

The Words and Music of Van Morrison

Autor: Erik Hage

Número de Páginas: 193

Van Morrison is primal but sophisticated; he's accessible but inscrutable; he's a complex songwriter and a raw blues shouter; he's a steady influence on the musical scene but wildly unpredictable as well, and it's these complex and often conflicting qualities that make him such a compelling subject for the Singer-Songwriter series. Journalist Erik Hage here eschews a cold, empirical study of structures and influence, and seeks instead more natural and intuitive means of appreciating all that is unique, eclectic, and surprising about Van Morrison's impressive output. In addition to covering almost all of Van Morrison's musical work and offering new readings of many iconic songs, Hage also provides a biographical introduction and a complete discography that can help listeners find new perspective on Morrison's body of work. Even in his darkest and most naked moments-in Astral Weeks for instance-Van Morrison's songs can still suggest something uplifting. Sometimes these two poles are present simultaneously, and at other times they each find distinct expression in a different musical moment. Even on his first solo album, Blowin' Your Mind (which contained the iconic Brown-Eyed Girl)...

The Irish in Us

Autor: Diane Negra

Número de Páginas: 410

DIVA colleciton that looks at how Irishness has become a discursive commodity within popular culture./div

Análisis y crítica audiovisual

Autor: Quim Casas Moliner

Número de Páginas: 156

Análisis y crítica audiovisual repasa la evolución histórica de la crítica cinematográfica. El libro también muestra las bases teóricas de algunos movimientos o tendencias y estudia la obra de algunos críticos que se convirtieron luego en directores de películas. Análisis y crítica audiovisual revisa la interrelación de la crítica con otras disciplinas que han aportado nuevas miradas al hecho cinematográfico y expone algunos aspectos prácticos en el ejercicio de este género: métodos de trabajo, modelos diversos, función y relación con los medios de comunicación y con los lectores

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

Autor: Nathan Brackett , Christian David Hoard

Número de Páginas: 948

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The Last Waltz of The Band

Autor: Neil Minturn

Número de Páginas: 244

For Vol. 2 of the series CMS Sourcebooks in American Music, Neil Minturn acknowledges the phenomenon of rock and roll with a serious examination of Martin Scorsese's film, THE LAST WALTZ (1978), the celebrated "rockumentary" that so artfully captured for posterity the final performance of The Band. From 1861 to 1976, this partnership of one American and four Canadians produced an impressive body of popular song in the rock idiom between 1961 and 1976. Joining its members for their farewell performance are a variety of guests, who, like The Band itself, reflected the rich array of traditions that have nourished rock and roll since its emergence. Minturn approaches the substance of the performances and the film itself in terms of intimacy and tradition. He presents the San Francisco concert as a summation of an extraordinary musical journey and prefaces his "scene-by-scene" analysis with a cogent introduction to documentary filmmaking. Selected performances are discussed in detail.

Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s

Autor: Robert Mcparland

Número de Páginas: 210

The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States. This book organizes the stories of approximately 150 artists whose songs created the soundtrack to people's lives during the decade that forever shaped musical composition. Some well-known, others less known, these artists were the song-poets and storytellers who wrote their own music and lyrics. Featuring biographical information and discography overviews for each artist, this is the only one-volume encyclopedic overview of this topic. Featured artists include Carole King and James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot, Elvis Costello and dozens of other song-poets of the seventies.

Here Comes the Night

Autor: Joel Selvin

Número de Páginas: 264

"I don't know where he's buried, but if I did I'd piss on his grave." —Jerry Wexler, best friend and mentor Here Comes the Night: Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues is both a definitive account of the New York rhythm and blues world of the early '60s, and the harrowing, ultimately tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric career was fueled by his pending doom. His heart damaged by rheumatic fever as a youth, doctors told Berns he would not live to see twenty–one. Although his name is little remembered today, Berns worked alongside all the greats of the era—Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Burt Bacharach, Phil Spector, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, anyone who was anyone in New York rhythm and blues. In seven quick years, he went from nobody to the top of the pops—producer of monumental R&B classics, songwriter of "Twist and Shout," "My Girl Sloopy" and others. His fury to succeed led Berns to use his Mafia associations to muscle Atlantic Records out of a partnership and intimidate new talents like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison he signed to his record label, only to drop dead of a long expected...

Jim Morrison & The Doors

Autor: Eduardo Izquierdo

Número de Páginas: 340

LA HISTORIA DE UN MITO Y DE UN GRUPO QUE FORJARON UNA LEYENDA MUSICAL QUE PERDURA HASTA NUESTROS DÍAS Entre 1965 y 1971, Morrison compuso un centenar de canciones, escribió y editó cuatro libros de poemas, realizó tres películas, redactó guiones y decenas de cuadernos con notas y poesías. Fue un icono sexual y la principal estrella del rock estadounidense. Transgredió todos los tabúes sexuales de aquel puritano país y llegó a amenazar a la administración americana con sus invitaciones a la protesta y la rebelión. Vivió deprisa y murió joven y, al frente de The Doors, creó unas canciones que todavía tienen el extraño poder de atraer nuevas generaciones con sus mensajes oscuros y su energía en bruto. •Vida y muerte de The Doors. •Rebuscando en el viejo blues. Las raíces. •27 anécdotas que debes conocer de Jim Morrison y The Doors. •Discografía y filmografía de un grupo que cambió la historia de la música. Siendo uno de los máximos exponentes de la psicodelia de los años sesenta, The Doors es una de las bandas más conocidas de la historia de la música. Con más de cien millones de álbumes vendidos en todo el mundo, y formados en la ciudad de Los...

Les 30 meilleurs groupes de rock anglais des années 60

Autor: Eddy Facoury

Número de Páginas: 152

GRANDES CANTANTES DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS

Autor: Telesforo Guerrra Moreno

Número de Páginas: 65

La música, en su esencia más pura, es la manifestación del alma humana. A lo largo de la historia, hemos sido testigos de innumerables voces que han transcendido el tiempo y el espacio, dejando una huella imborrable en el corazón de la humanidad. Estos son los grandes cantantes de todos los tiempos, cuyas voces han sido faros de luz en los momentos más oscuros, consuelo en la tristeza, y celebración en la alegría. En las siguientes páginas, nos sumergiremos en un viaje a través de las vidas y las canciones de estos íconos musicales, descubriendo la magia de su arte y la inmortalidad de su legado. Desde las melodías atemporales de la ópera, que nos transportan a mundos lejanos, hasta los ritmos apasionados del rock 'n' roll que nos hacen mover el pie al ritmo, cada género musical ha sido bendecido con sus propias voces icónicas. Frank Sinatra, el inigualable crooner, con su voz suave como terciopelo, nos transporta a las noches en la ciudad de Nueva York en los años dorados. Aretha Franklin, la Reina del Soul, nos hizo sentir cada palabra en lo más profundo de nuestras almas. Freddie Mercury, la voz inigualable de Queen, nos recordó que el rock podía ser grandioso ...

Bob Dylan, Anos de Luces Y Sombras

Autor: Paul Williams

Número de Páginas: 388

Resumen: Una obra inigualable por su valor como testimonio histórico de uno de los mayores mitos del panorama musical.

Jim Morrison

Autor: Stephen Davis

Número de Páginas: 514

Jim Morrison's electrifying live performances, and appetite for sexual and psychedelic experience enflamed the spirit of a generation. In Jim Morrison, critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis brings together insights gleaned from dozens of original interviews, long-lost recordings, and Morrison's own unpublished journals to create a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius. Each page brims with new details on every phase of Morrison's life, from his troubled youth in a strict military household, to his coming of age in the avant-garde scene of 1960s LA, his epic alcohol and drug binges, and sexual affairs. In a gripping final chapter, Davis synthesizes new evidence recently uncovered in Paris to resolve at last many of the mysteries surrounding Morrison's death, and reconstructs the final days and hours of America's greatest rock star. Compelling and harrowing, intimate and revelatory, Jim Morrison is the definitive biography of the rock god who defined the 1960s.

Jazz Latino

Autor: Isabelle Leymarie

Número de Páginas: 212

Este tipo de jazz, resulta ser una de las músicas más estimulantes, fusionadas y mestizas del mundo. Curiosamente, ha sido ignorada por los aficionados y aun por los expertos, durante muchos años. No obstante, en la actualidad está teniendo un destacado auge internacional y alcanzando el sitial que le corresponde. Este libro constituye un testimonio esencial sobre su apasionante historia, desde su nacimiento, en Nueva Orleans, Nueva York y La Habana, hasta sus más recientes evoluciones. Un delicioso viaje para los amantes del jazz que recorre todo el continente en busca del rastro de las raíces africanas en la expresión cubana y brasileña, así como la influencia del resto de ritmos latinoamericanos y de las Antillas; todo ello empastado en este volumen que viene profusamente ilustrado con fotografías en blanco y negro.

The Complete Guide to the Music of Van Morrison

Autor: Patrick Humphries

Número de Páginas: 144

Details every recorded song in the artist's catalogue from the start of his career to the present day.

The Mojo Collection

Autor: Jim Irvin

Número de Páginas: 881

Organised chronologically and spanning seven decades, The MOJO Collection presents an authoritative and engaging guide to the history of the pop album via hundreds of long-playing masterpieces, from the much-loved to the little known. From The Beatles to The Verve, from Duke Ellington to King Tubby and from Peggy Lee to Sly Stone, hundreds of albums are covered in detail with chart histories, full track and personnel listings and further listening suggestions. There's also exhaustive coverage of the soundtrack and hit collections that every home should have. Like all collections, there are records you listen to constantly, albums you've forgotten, albums you hardly play, albums you love guiltily and albums you thought you were alone in treasuring, proving The MOJO Collection to be an essential purchase for those who love and live music

Rock & Arte

Autor: Ezio Guaitamacchi , Leonardo Follieri , Giulio Crotti

Número de Páginas: 400

CUANDO EL ROCK SE ENCUENTRA CON EL ARTE Este libro, el primero en profundizar de manera nueva y cautivadora en todas las relaciones entre el rock y las distintas formas de arte, está dividido en ocho secciones: carátulas, pósteres, artistas y diseñadores, fotografía, objetos, cine, moda. Además de un capítulo final que explora la parte creativa (más o menos conocida) de las estrellas del rock que, a lo largo de los años, han intentado otras formas de expresión. Cada sección se explica a través de historias y anécdotas, ilustrada con imágenes a color y enriquecida con recuadros, citas y curiosidades. Porque, como dijo una vez Marilyn Manson: "El arte nunca es algo único." De Andy Warhol a Allen Ginsberg, del arte imaginativo de los Pink Floyd al grafismo psicodélico de San Francisco, de las fotos de Jim Marshall al arte documental de Martin Scorsese, pero también del corte de pelo de los Beatles a la moda grunge, de la carátula de "Sgt. Pepper's" a la de "Abraxas", de los cuadros de Joni Mitchell a las poesías de Jim Morrison, "Rock & Arte" cuenta con pasión, rigor y originalidad todo lo que el rock ha transformado en arte. • MÚSICA PARA MIRAR: Un siglo de...

Conexión Beatles - Sus canciones y 836 temas más

Autor: Luis Miguel Martínez , Luis Miguel Martínez Gómez

Número de Páginas: 475

Este no es un libro para (solamente) leer. Es una invitación a la escucha activa de música que, aunque conozcas, redescubrirás con nuevos matices y detalles. También es una provocación para que te atrevas a disfrutar de grupos y músicos nuevos para ti. Estas páginas reúnen una cuidada selección de más de mil canciones de más de cuatrocientos músicos y grupos musicales que se hizo con rigurosidad para asegurar que fuera divertida, original y sorprendente. No ha sido flor de un solo día (A Day In The Life). Cuenta el autor que, en ocasiones, se ha sentido como atravesando un largo y tortuoso camino (The Long And Winding Road), pero que no perdió el deseo de tomar tu mano (I Want To Hold Your Hand) y guiarte por un viaje mágico y misterioso (Magical Mystery Tour) para que te sientas bien (I Feel Fine) y descubras más del universo Beatles y del rock (Across The Universe).

La Odisea de Pink Floyd

Autor: Nicholas Schaffner

Número de Páginas: 324

Esta podría ser una de la pocas, si no la única biografía que detalla y pormenoriza lo más íntimo y particular de la mítica banda. Porque Pink Floyd pertenece a esa clase de grupos famosos que protegen celosamente su vida fuera de los escenarios, algo que ha producido un efecto bien contrario en la opinión pública, porque la reacción de sus fans y de toda la prensa farandulera se traduce en un mayor interés por saberlo todo acerca de esos fantásticos músicos. Por eso este libro se agradece. En él se retoma el largo y reconocido viaje hacia la cima de estos muchachos; desde sus orígenes hasta la decadencia pero, además, se hurga tras bambalinas, al apagarse las luces, cuando se detiene el inspirado aire psicodélico de sus canciones; durante esos momentos en que aparecen algunas otras historias que contar.

Aerosmith

Número de Páginas: 599

Fragments of an Analytic Pub Crawl

Autor: Hugh M Vaughan

Número de Páginas: 243

Fragments of an Analytic Pub Crawl traces the journey of my life, its memories, the events and the places where I have been and what I have read. The book title is not to be confused with the traditional drinking pub crawl, it is a way of describing the psychogeographical nature of this book. Patrick ffrench, the writer, described psychogeography as “an analytic pub crawl”, a lived experience – one drifts from one place to the next; observing, noting, reacting. We may drift through a city, or a life and absorb. This is the “dérive”. Charles Baudelaire named this person, the flâneur. Just as the past left traces in today’s built environment, so have we, and so have I. This book traces those memories, it’s part memoir, part history, and part essay, The subjects reflect a variety of interests: growing up in Northern Ireland, the Troubles, my life in IT education, Irish humour, life-skills, reading, writing, music, emigration, family, urban liveability, the pandemic and much much more.

The Rough Guide to Rock

Autor: Peter Buckley

Número de Páginas: 1234

Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.

Encyclopedia of Classic Rock

Autor: David Luhrssen , Michael Larson

Número de Páginas: 464

Examining one of the most popular and enduring genres of American music, this encyclopedia of classic rock from 1965 to 1975 provides an indispensable resource for cultural historians and music fans. More than movies, literature, television, or theater, rock music set the stage for the cultural shifts that occurred from 1965 to 1975. Led by The Beatles and Bob Dylan, rock became a self-conscious art form during these years, daring to go places unimaginable to earlier rock and roll musicians. The music and outspokenness of classic rock artists inspired and moved the era's social, cultural, and political developments with a power once possessed by authors and playwrights-and influenced many artists in younger generations of rock musicians. This single-volume work tracks the careers of well-known as well as many lesser-known but influential rock artists from the period, providing readers with a handy reference to the music from a critical, groundbreaking period in popular culture and its enduring importance. The book covers rock artists who emerged or came to prominence in the period ranging 1965–1975 and follows their careers through the present. It also specifically defines the...

SPIN

Número de Páginas: 96

From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Great Lost Albums

Autor: Mark Billingham , David Quantick , Martyn Waites , Stav Sherez

Número de Páginas: 227

We can all name the classic rock and pop albums of the last fifty years. But what about the great lost albums? The albums that fell behind the back of the musical sofa? The albums that, in a very real sense, have been completely made up by the authors of this book? It took a bestselling crime writer or three to hunt down these fifty lost classics, and an award-winning TV comedy scriptwriter to buy them a pint and make them write it. From the 60s to the 00s, with track listings and full histories, Great Lost Albums reveals the recordings that - just perhaps - never existed, but really should have done. Albums include: · Bob Dylan's legendary collaboration with Liberace · Joy Division's 'musical theatre' period · Coldplay's IKEA Sessions, including 'Conscious Uncoupling (See Leaflet for Details)' and 'In my Place (There's a Lovely HEMNES Shelving System)' · The Who's magisterial, abandoned rock opera 'Bingo Wizard' · Kraftwerk's hastily deleted Christmas album, featuring the melancholic classic 'I Wish to Return this Item' ...and many, many more.

Ireland in the Life and Work of C.S. Lewis

Autor: David Clare

Número de Páginas: 213

Even after he achieved world-wide fame through books such as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Screwtape Letters, the Belfast-born author C.S. Lewis – often regarded as uncomplicatedly English by critics and the general public – proudly and regularly described himself as Irish. What’s more, he frequently incorporated Irish elements into his work. This includes, for example, numerous allusions to Irish mythology, the repeated employment of Hiberno-English and Ulster Scots words and expressions, and a preference for tropes frequently found in Irish (and sometimes specifically Ulster Protestant) writing.

Billboard

Número de Páginas: 72

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Conspiraciones, leyendas y mitos en la historia de la música

Autor: Manolo Bellon

Número de Páginas: 293

Algunos de los mayores mitos de la música abordados por uno de los mayores expertos en Colombia ¿Ha oído que hay canciones que, si se escuchan al revés, contienen un mensaje oculto? O tal vez conozca el eterno rumor de que Elvis Presley está vivo, de que Paul McCartney tiene un doble o de que el violinista italiano Paganini le vendió su alma al diablo. Dichas teorías conspirativas, mitos y leyendas han existido siempre en el terreno de la música, siendo una fuente inagotable de especulación y asombro. En este libro fascinante, Manolo Bellon aborda esas historias y otras similares, y se adentra en la vida de artistas que han dejado una huella imborrable en la cultura mundial -The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Juan Gabriel, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Louis Armstrong y muchos más-. Autor bestseller, que en 2024 celebra cincuenta y cinco años de carrera, Bellon cuenta lo que se esconde detrás de temas icónicos como "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" y "Hotel California", y alude, por ejemplo, al aparente vínculo de Stevie Nicks con la brujería, a la muerte de la cantante Se lena y al supuesto y peligroso encuentro de Debbie...

Montage vidéo et audio libre

Autor: Laurent Bellegarde

Número de Páginas: 418

Des outils libres pour le montage vidéo amateur. Du caméscope et de la prise de vue au montage et à la post-production DVD, voilà l'ouvrage attendu par les vidéastes amateurs souhaitant utiliser des logiciels libres pour créer leurs films et courts-métrages.

Historia Del Rock: el Sonido de la Ciudad

Autor: Charlie Gillett

Número de Páginas: 580

DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews

Autor: Frank Alkyer

Número de Páginas: 356

(Book). Culled from the DownBeat archives includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat 's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat . This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat 's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words. Features classic photos and magazine covers fron Downbeat 's vast archive.

Not Bored! Anthology 1983-2010

Autor: Bill Brown

Número de Páginas: 695

Massive anthology of essays and illustrations published in NOT BORED! between 1983 and 2010.

Glad Tidings

Autor: Tade Reen

Número de Páginas: 194

A New Yorker will stop at nothing to defend the honor of his loved ones who were killed on 9/11.

Pandemic Playlist

Autor: Kevin Farrell

Número de Páginas: 153

Pandemic Playlist: An Exploration of COVID-inspired Popular Music takes readers back to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the music industry. Focusing on those artists who responded directly to the pandemic with their music, Kevin Farrell explores a selection of songs written and recorded about COVID-19. These songs range from the hilariously tongue-in-cheek to the painfully earnest to the self-righteously angry, coming from musicians obscure, world famous, and up-and-coming. Farrell argues that these songs, both originals and repurposed covers, are best classified by rhetorical approach, rather than musical style, identifying four basic categories of COVID-inspired popular music: the Coronavirus Anthem (Bono's “Let Your Love Be Known,” Alicia Keys' “Good Job”), Pandemic Pop (Cardi B and iMarkkeyz's “Coronavirus,” Curtis Roach and Tyga's “Bored in the House”), the COVID Cover (Gal Gadot's “Imagine,” Juvenile's “Vax That Thang Up”), and Pandemic Protest (Ian Brown's “Little Seed Big Tree,” Kid Rock's “We The People”). Through a study of these songs, and many more, this book seeks to understand what the pandemic and the music it...

The Novels of Gloria Naylor

Autor: Gloria Naylor

Número de Páginas: 657

Three lyrical and unforgettable novels from the National Book Award–winning author of The Women of Brewster Place. After winning both the National Book Award and the American Book Award for her now iconic debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, which was later made into a TV miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Naylor continued to garner acclaim as one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American literature with novels such as Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey’s Cafe. Mama Day: On Willow Springs, an island off the coast between Georgia and South Carolina, superstition is more potent than any trappings of the modern world. Here, the formidable Mama Day uses her powers to heal. But her great-niece, Cocoa, can’t wait to escape to New York City. When Cocoa returns to the island with her husband, George, darker forces challenge the couple—and their only hope may be the mystical matriarch. Steeped in the folklore of the South and inspired by Shakespeare, Mama Day is one of Naylor’s “richest and most complex” novels (Providence Journal). “[A] wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom, and completely realized.” —The Washington Post Linden ...

Astral Weeks

Autor: Ryan H. Walsh

Número de Páginas: 385

A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory--along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a criss-crossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts English professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show (one episode required two sets, each tuned to a different channel) to the mystically inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he was God, then controlled the lives of his many followers via acid, astrology, and an underground newspaper...

Bailey's Cafe

Autor: Gloria Naylor

Número de Páginas: 175

A "moving and memorable" novel about a cafe where everyone has a story to tell from the award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place ( The Boston Globe). In post–World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, there's a little place that draws people from all over—not for the food, and definitely not for the coffee. An in-between place that's only there when you need it, Bailey's Cafe is a crossroads where patrons stay for a while before making a choice: Move on or check out? In this novel, National Book Award–winning author Gloria Naylor's expertly crafted characters experience a journey full of beauty and heartbreak. Touching on gender, race, and the African American experience, Bailey's Cafe is "a sublime achievement" about the resilience of the human spirit ( People).