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Paperback. Van Halen is a groundbreaking account of an extraordinary band, caught in the events of a revolutionary time. John Scanlan follows the band's pursuit of the 'art of artlessness', and describes how they characterize 'Zen California' - a state of mind and way of being that above all celebrates 'the now'. Series: Reverb. Num Pages: 216 pages, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGT; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 295.
'I hate the word maturing,' singer David Lee Roth once said. 'I don't like the word evolving - or any of that bullshit. The point is to keep it as simplistic, as unassuming, and as stupid as possible.' As Roth would have wanted it, Van Halen follows the band's pursuit of the art of artlessness, and describes how they characterize what historian Kevin Starr terms 'Zen California' - a state of mind and way of being that above all celebrates 'the now'. In rock'n'roll terms it stands for the unregulated expenditure of energy; for a youthful ... Read more
'I hate the word maturing,' singer David Lee Roth once said. 'I don't like the word evolving - or any of that bullshit. The point is to keep it as simplistic, as unassuming, and as stupid as possible.' As Roth would have wanted it, Van Halen follows the band's pursuit of the art of artlessness, and describes how they characterize what historian Kevin Starr terms 'Zen California' - a state of mind and way of being that above all celebrates 'the now'. In rock'n'roll terms it stands for the unregulated expenditure of energy; for a youthful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Reverb
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861899163
SKU
V9781861899163
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99-15
About John Scanlan
John Scanlan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He writes about cultural aesthetics and the philosophy and sociology of time, and is the author of On Garbage (Reaktion, 2004).
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