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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.'
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Serpent's Tail Classics: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Lester Bangs
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2014
- Reliure
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 6,99 €
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- Titre
- Serpent's Tail Classics: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
- Auteurs
- Lester Bangs
- Éditeur
- Profile Books
- Publié
- 2014
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 1781252777
- ISBN13
- 9781781252772
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Art / Culture, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Thématique musicale, Musique, 20e siècle, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Journalisme et Publication, Critique, Pop culture, Rock, Musique populaire
- Description
- 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.'