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Always Magic in the Air The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

Name: Always Magic in the Air
Author: Ken Emerson

Auteur: Ken Emerson

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Ken Emerson

Engels
Paperback
9781841157283
20 maart 2006
352 pagina's

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Ken Emerson

Ken Emerson, the author of Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture and coauthor of Stephen Foster, a documentary film for the PBS series The American Experience, has written widely about popular music and culture since the 1960s. His articles and reviews have appeared in publications ranging from Rolling Stone to The Wall Street Journal. He is the former articles editor of The New York Times Magazine and op-ed editor of New York Newsday.

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Just as ‘The Last Party’ caught Britpop in the 90s, and ‘Easy Riders’ and ‘Raging Bull’ portrayed Hollywood in the 70s, so ‘Always Magic in the Air’ brilliantly captures the sweet, baby-boom music scene of New York in the 60s.

‘Always Magic in the Air’ is a family portrait of fourteen remarkable young songwriters who, huddled in midtown Manhattan's Brill Building and in 1650 Broadway during the late 1950s and early '60s, created some of rock 'n' roll's first entries great classics – songs like Elvis Presley's 'Jailhouse Rock', Dionne Warwick's 'Walk On By' and the Righteous Brothers' 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Neil Sedaka and Howie Greenfield, and many others, melded black, white and Latino sounds before multiculturalism became a concept, integrated audiences before American desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.

Impeccably researched, including exclusive interviews with all the main participants, ‘Always Magic in the Air’ is a riveting chapter in American popular culture, evoking a period when fear and frivolity, sputniks and hula-hoops simultaneously girdled the globe. Ken Emerson describes the world that made these songwriters, the world they in turn made in their music, and the impact on their careers, partnerships and marriages when the Beatles, Dylan and drugs ripped those worlds asunder. The stories behind their songs make the 'golden oldies' we take for grated sounds brand new and more moving and eloquent than we ever suspected.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 maart 2006
Aantal pagina's: 352
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Ken Emerson
Hoofduitgeverij: Fourth Estate Ltd

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Originele titel: Always Magic in the Air: The People and Music of the Brill Building Era

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Editie: New title
Product breedte: 153 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 155 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 26 mm
Verpakking lengte: 233 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 781 g

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EAN: 9781841157283

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Categorieën: Kunst & Fotografie

Muziek

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Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: ca. 1950-1999

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