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Ragged Glories: City Lights, Country Funk, American Music
Barney Hoskins
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Description for Ragged Glories: City Lights, Country Funk, American Music
paperback. This volume is a collection of pieces covering 20 years of music - pop, soul, country and blues - in the US. It includes interviews with Lou Reed, Randy Newman and Johnny Cash; profiles of cult heroes Big Star, Little Feat and Todd Rungeon; and essays on disco, cyberpunk and Americana. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 510.
A new collection of pieces, covering 20 years of popular music, by one of the UK's pre-eminent rock journalists and the people who sung and played it. From Prince to Pavement, James Brown to Joni Mitchell, ZZ Top to Tom Waits, Beck to Eminem, the former US editor of MOJO burrows deep into the heart of America's greatest music. Probing interviews with Lou Reed, Randy Newman and Johnny Cash; exhaustive profiles of cult heroes Big Star, Little Feat and Todd Rundgren; shrewd essays on disco, cyberpunk, and Americana, Ragged Glories is a hymn to the USA - to its pop, ... Read more
A new collection of pieces, covering 20 years of popular music, by one of the UK's pre-eminent rock journalists and the people who sung and played it. From Prince to Pavement, James Brown to Joni Mitchell, ZZ Top to Tom Waits, Beck to Eminem, the former US editor of MOJO burrows deep into the heart of America's greatest music. Probing interviews with Lou Reed, Randy Newman and Johnny Cash; exhaustive profiles of cult heroes Big Star, Little Feat and Todd Rundgren; shrewd essays on disco, cyberpunk, and Americana, Ragged Glories is a hymn to the USA - to its pop, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pimlico United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712604680
SKU
V9780712604680
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-37
About Barney Hoskins
Barney Hoskyns was born in England in 1959 and began writing for the New Musical Express after leaving Oxford. He has since written for The Times, the New Statesman, Guardian, Spin, the Los Angeles Reader, Creem, Vogue, and many other publications. In 1987 his acclaimed study of Southern soul music, Say it One Time for the Brokenhearted, was published. He ... Read more
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