Song Noir: Tom Waits And The Spirit Of Los Angeles Alex Harvey Reaktion Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Music

Song Noir Examines The Formative First Decade Of Tom Waits’ Career When He Lived Wrote And Recorded Nine Albums In Los Angeles From His Soft Folk-Inflected Debut Closing Time (1973) To Abrasive Surreal Swordfishtrombones (1983) Starting Song-Writing ’70S Waits Absorbed La’s Wealth Cultural Influences Combining Spoken Idioms Writers Like Kerouac Bukowski With Jazz-Blues Rhythms Explored City’s Literary Film Traditions Create Hallucinatory Dreamscapes Mined A Rich Seam Low-Life Locations Characters Letting Place Feed Dark Imagination Mixing Domestic Mythic Turned Quotidian Autobiographical Details Into Something More Disturbing Emblematic Vision La As Warped Narcotic Heart Nocturnal Explorations Σελίδες: 240 Διαστάσεις: 14 8X14 8Cm