ISBN: 9798988670148 - corner boy: loiterings new and old (18 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration. Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music[A] longtime freelance scene-maker, [Cohn] practices a form of journalism that might be called loitering with intent . . . [He] was in the exact demographic place to feel the detonation of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who across a formerly dull, gray landscape. He was a pioneering rock critic . . . His music writing was ardent, fond and knowing, and it had bite.Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThe definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn.Before rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them.Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old gathers Nik Cohns nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a single, riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohns career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, from 1968, his ground-breaking history of pop music from its beginning; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English mens fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway (the street); Yes We Have No, a road trip through an alternative England, seen as a banana republic, just before the new millennium; and Triksta, the saga of his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene, as a would-be bounce impresario. Here are some of Cohns earliest published writings, in Londons Observer, at age nineteen, as well as his most recent: Apprehension, written in 2025, an 8,000-word narrative of his arrest in New York City, in 1983, for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohns peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is unique and essentialthe definitive record of a life spent bearing witness. The definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. 'The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration' Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 MusicBefore rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them. Corner Boy gathers Nik Cohn's nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohn's career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, his groundbreaking history of pop music; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English men's fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway; Yes We Have No; and Triksta, about his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene. The book includes the new essay "Apprehension," a narrative of his 1983 arrest in New York for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohn's peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is the vivid record of a life spent bearing witness.…

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Hardback. Condizione: New. 'The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration' Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 MusicBefore rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them. Corner Boy gathers Nik Cohn's nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohn's career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, his groundbreaking history of pop music; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English men's fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway; Yes We Have No; and Triksta, about his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene. The book includes the new essay "Apprehension," a narrative of his 1983 arrest in New York for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohn's peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is the vivid record of a life spent bearing witness.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration. Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music[A] longtime freelance scene-maker, [Cohn] practices a form of journalism that might be called loitering with intent . . . [He] was in the exact demographic place to feel the detonation of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who across a formerly dull, gray landscape. He was a pioneering rock critic . . . His music writing was ardent, fond and knowing, and it had bite.Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThe definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn.Before rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them.Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old gathers Nik Cohns nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a single, riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohns career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, from 1968, his ground-breaking history of pop music from its beginning; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English mens fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway (the street); Yes We Have No, a road trip through an alternative England, seen as a banana republic, just before the new millennium; and Triksta, the saga of his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene, as a would-be bounce impresario. Here are some of Cohns earliest published writings, in Londons Observer, at age nineteen, as well as his most recent: Apprehension, written in 2025, an 8,000-word narrative of his arrest in New York City, in 1983, for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohns peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is unique and essentialthe definitive record of a life spent bearing witness. The definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. 'The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration' Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 MusicBefore rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them. Corner Boy gathers Nik Cohn's nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohn's career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, his groundbreaking history of pop music; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English men's fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway; Yes We Have No; and Triksta, about his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene. The book includes the new essay "Apprehension," a narrative of his 1983 arrest in New York for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohn's peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is the vivid record of a life spent bearing witness.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration.' -Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music'[A] longtime freelance scene-maker, [Cohn] practices a form of journalism that might be called loitering with intent . . . [He] was in the exact demographic place to feel the detonation of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who across a formerly dull, gray landscape. He was a pioneering rock critic . . . His music writing was ardent, fond and knowing, and it had bite.'-Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThe definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn.Before rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them.Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old gathers Nik Cohn's nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a single, riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohn's career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, from 1968, his ground-breaking history of pop music from its beginning; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English men's fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway (the street); Yes We Have No, a road trip through an alternative England, seen as a banana republic, just before the new millennium; and Triksta, the saga of his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene, as a would-be bounce impresario. Here are some of Cohn's earliest published writings, in London's Observer, at age nineteen, as well as his most recent: 'Apprehension,' written in 2025, an 8,000-word narrative of his arrest in New York City, in 1983, for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohn's peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is unique and essential-the definitive record of a life spent bearing witness.…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration. Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music[A] longtime freelance scene-maker, [Cohn] practices a form of journalism that might be called loitering with intent . . . [He] was in the exact demographic place to feel the detonation of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who across a formerly dull, gray landscape. He was a pioneering rock critic . . . His music writing was ardent, fond and knowing, and it had bite.Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThe definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn.Before rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them.Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old gathers Nik Cohns nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a single, riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohns career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, from 1968, his ground-breaking history of pop music from its beginning; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English mens fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway (the street); Yes We Have No, a road trip through an alternative England, seen as a banana republic, just before the new millennium; and Triksta, the saga of his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene, as a would-be bounce impresario. Here are some of Cohns earliest published writings, in Londons Observer, at age nineteen, as well as his most recent: Apprehension, written in 2025, an 8,000-word narrative of his arrest in New York City, in 1983, for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohns peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is unique and essentialthe definitive record of a life spent bearing witness. The definitive, lavishly illustrated collection of music writing, memoir, and reportage from the redoubtable Nik Cohn. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. 'The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration' Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 MusicBefore rock criticism had rules, Nik Cohn was already breaking them. Corner Boy gathers Nik Cohn's nonfiction from the 1960s to the present into a riotous self-portrait. Moving from Derry to London, New York, and New Orleans, he writes about pop stars and boxers, club kids and hustlers, painters, prophets, disco dancers, drag queens, lowlifes, nobodies, and the half-mythic figures who live at the edge of the action.The book draws from across Cohn's career, including Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom, his groundbreaking history of pop music; Today There Are No Gentlemen, about English men's fashion; The Heart of the World, a soul-biography of Broadway; Yes We Have No; and Triksta, about his misadventures in the New Orleans rap scene. The book includes the new essay "Apprehension," a narrative of his 1983 arrest in New York for drug trafficking.Edited by distinguished critic Ben Ratliff, the collection features long-form conversations that bridge Nik Cohn's peripatetic, Zelig-like life. Complete with full-color images drawn from Muriel, his ever-evolving, sixty-year photo-collage, Corner Boy is the vivid record of a life spent bearing witness.…