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Flying Saucers Rock ´n´ Roll: Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock ´n´ Soul Eccentrics
Jake Austen
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Description for Flying Saucers Rock ´n´ Roll: Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock ´n´ Soul Eccentrics
paperback. The best of the cult-favorite music magazine Roctober s conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists, from the Outlaw Country singer David Allan Coe to the frustrated interstellar glam act Zolar X. Editor(s): Austen, Jake. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 320 pages, 74 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
For nearly twenty years, the much-beloved music magazine Roctober has featured work by some of the best underground cartoonists, exhaustive examinations of made-up genres such as “robot rock,” and an ongoing exploration of everything Sammy Davis Jr. ever sang, said, or did. But the heart of the magazine has always been the lengthy conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists. Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll gathers the most compelling of these interviews. Eccentric, important artists—including the rockabilly icon Billy Lee Riley, the jazz musician and activist Oscar Brown Jr., the “Outlaw Country” singer David Allan Coe, and the pioneer rock ’n’ ... Read more
For nearly twenty years, the much-beloved music magazine Roctober has featured work by some of the best underground cartoonists, exhaustive examinations of made-up genres such as “robot rock,” and an ongoing exploration of everything Sammy Davis Jr. ever sang, said, or did. But the heart of the magazine has always been the lengthy conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists. Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll gathers the most compelling of these interviews. Eccentric, important artists—including the rockabilly icon Billy Lee Riley, the jazz musician and activist Oscar Brown Jr., the “Outlaw Country” singer David Allan Coe, and the pioneer rock ’n’ ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Refiguring American Music
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822348498
SKU
V9780822348498
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About Jake Austen
Jake Austen is an independent music writer and the editor of Roctober magazine. He is the author of TV-a-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol, the editor of A Friendly Game of Poker: 52 Takes on the Neighborhood Game, and a founder and co-host of the cult-favorite dance show Chic-a-Go-Go, which airs on Chicago Access Network Television ... Read more
Reviews for Flying Saucers Rock ´n´ Roll: Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock ´n´ Soul Eccentrics
“Jake Austen has the brains of a world-class scholar driven to illuminate previously obscure but vital arcana, the soul of a historian eager to bring the past roaring back to life, and the heart of a furious but funny rock ’n’ roll hell-raiser. As the majordomo of Roctober, fronting a posse of like-minded and equally passionate fellow travelers, he has ... Read more