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Nine Choices
Jonathan Silverman
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Description for Nine Choices
Paperback. Less a conventional biography than a study of the making of an identity, Silverman explores how Johnny Cash sought to define who he was, how he was perceived, and what he signified through a series of self-conscious actions. Drawing on interviews, archiva Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
For much of his career, Johnny Cash opened his shows with the tagline, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” This introduction seemed unnecessary, since everyone in the audience knew who he was?the famous musical artist whose career spanned almost five decades, whose troubled life on and off the stage received wide publicity, and whose cragged face seemed to express a depth and intensity not found in any other artist, living or dead. For Cash, as for many celebrities, renown was the product of both hard work and luck. Often a visionary and always a tireless performer, he was subject to a whirlwind ... Read more
For much of his career, Johnny Cash opened his shows with the tagline, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” This introduction seemed unnecessary, since everyone in the audience knew who he was?the famous musical artist whose career spanned almost five decades, whose troubled life on and off the stage received wide publicity, and whose cragged face seemed to express a depth and intensity not found in any other artist, living or dead. For Cash, as for many celebrities, renown was the product of both hard work and luck. Often a visionary and always a tireless performer, he was subject to a whirlwind ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558498273
SKU
V9781558498273
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Ref
99-15
About Jonathan Silverman
Jonathan Silverman is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and coauthor of The World Is a Text: Writing Reading and Thinking about Culture and Its Contexts.
Reviews for Nine Choices
Focusing on what Johnny Cash means to Americans, rather than recounting a straightforward biography or offering traditional music criticism, this book makes the argument that Cash simultaneously embodies the existential search for authen-ticity at the heart of 1950 s American culture and the postmodern self-consciousness about performing the self that characterized late twentieth-century culture.- Barbara Ching, author of Wrong's What ... Read more