Original Rockers - Rilegato

King, Richard

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0571311792 ISBN 13: 9780571311798

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2015

Riassunto

Richard King's account of the several years he spent working in a Bristol independent record shop in the early 90s is destined to become a classic of music writing. We live in an age when the most beautiful of recording formats, vinyl, is back in vogue and thriving. In the early 90s vinyl was looking like an anachronism. And with its demise came the gradual erosion of a once beautiful and unique landscape known as the independent record shop. Richard King, author of How Soon is Now, blends memoir and elegiac music writing on the likes of Captain Beefheart, CAN and Julian Cope, to create a book that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop. Chaotic, amateurish and extravagantly dysfunctional, this is a book full of rare personalities and rum stories. It is a book about landscape, place and the personal; the first piece of writing to treat the environment of the record shop as a natural resource with its own peculiar rhythms and anecdotal histories.

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Recensione:

Original Rockers is an eloquent panegyric...In its intoxicating sense of place, and King's tying together of disparate pop-cultural strands, it sometimes seems to be a modest cousin of Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic or Lipstick Traces, or an example of the idiosyncratic kind of cultural-historical writing lately done by Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys in his travelogue American Interior. (John Harris The Guardian)

Original Rockers is a remarkable memory fugue, a work of rapture and reverie, a bittersweet and often moving tribute to a hallowed place. (Suhkdev Sandhu The Observer)

This is not so much a eulogy for record shops as an examination of the romantic, slightly tragic disposition of the people to whom they meant so much (The Times (Music Book of the Year))

Part time capsule, part history lesson, part musical treasure map, Original Rockers goes beyond recalling King's several years working at Bristol's Revolver Records during the 1990s. Offering insights into the idiosyncratic, often comically dysfunctional world behind the counter, King unashamedly romanticises those pre-internet days when musical knowledge was hard won rather than a mouse-click away. (Mojo 4****)

Descrizione del libro:

A wonderful account that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571311792
• ISBN 13: 9780571311798
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256