Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Reduzierte Artikel in dieser Kategorie
10,99 €
| Verlag | Profile Books |
| Auflage | 2014 |
| Seiten | 416 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,8 x 2,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 338 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Serpent's Tail Classics |
| ISBN-10 | 1781252777 |
| EAN | 9781781252772 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78125277UA |
The essential writings of the greatest music writer of the twentieth, or any, century, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic
Klappentext:
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.'
Rezension:
Bangs was one of the best writers ever to appear on newsprint ... when he died, American culture lost one its most astute, ornery, funniest and most soulful observers New York Times