American Music Series - A Spy in the House of Loud Ebook New York Songs and Stories

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  • livre numérique
  • 9781477316245
  • 15 avril 2018
  • Epub zonder kopieerbeveiliging (DRM)
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The musician & producer reflects on New York City's early punk rock scene, as well as the creation of some of his most famous albums in this memoir.

Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, "the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it." In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery's CBGB as Television, Talking Heads, R.E.M., and other innovative bands were rewriting the rules. Just twenty-two years old and newly arrived from North Carolina, Stamey immersed himself in the action, playing a year with Alex Chilton before forming the dB's and recording the albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion, which still have an enthusiastic following.

A Spy in the House of Loud vividly captures the energy that drove the music scene as arena rock gave way to punk and other new streams of electric music. Stamey tells engrossing backstories about creating in the recording studio, describing both the inspiration and the harmonic decisions behind many of his compositions, as well as providing insights into other people's music and the process of songwriting. Photos, mixer-channel and track assignment notes, and other inside-the-studio materials illustrate the stories. Revealing another side of the CBGB era, which has been stereotyped as punk rock, safety pins, and provocation, A Spy in the House of Loud portrays a southern artist's coming-of-age in New York's frontier abandon as he searches for new ways to break the rules and make some noise.

"An endlessly fascinating odyssey through the worlds of Southern pop, New York City art punk, and American indie rock. Stamey's stories capture you with same finely etched detail and emotional depth that have always marked his best songs. Both an engrossing personal memoir and an eye-opening peek into the creative process, this is a truly essential work of music lit." —Bob Mehr, New York Times–bestselling author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

"Informed, eloquent, and daring, this book stands as a model of excellence for both music writing and memoir. Stamey moves effortlessly between analysis and reminiscence, history and personal revelation, shedding light on his own creative journey as well as the city—'planet New York'—that provided a good deal of the inspiration for it. I simultaneously learned so much and was deeply moved." —Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life

"Where most musician autobiographies are fueled by backstage drama, this book focuses almost entirely on the creative process, a choice that not only proves to be compelling but helps turn Stamey's personal journey into a necessary document of peak-era college rock, illustrating how it was a vibrant scene filled with unexpected cross pollination." — Pitchfork

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Date de sortie initiale
15 avril 2018
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Epub zonder kopieerbeveiliging (DRM)
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Chris Stamey
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University Of Texas Press

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