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Only Nick Tosches, best-selling author of Dino and The Devil and Sonny Liston , could have woven this irresistible tale: part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music. A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the centre of this riveting narrative. For twenty years, Nick Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodelling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues and much of the popular music of the twentieth century. Beginning with a handful of 78-rpm records and ending at a tombstone in a Macon, Georgia, graveyard, Tosches pieces together a life - and illuminates the spirit of music makers from Cab Calloway to Bob Dylan, from Homer to the Rolling Stones. This is a brilliant, inspired journey by one of the most original writers at work today.
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Where Dead Voices Gather, Nick Tosches
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2002
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- Titul
- Where Dead Voices Gather
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Nick Tosches
- Vydavatel
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Rok vydání
- 2002
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0224063154
- ISBN13
- 9780224063159
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Hudební tématika, USA, Biografie, Performativní umění, Jazz, Populární hudba
- Hodnocení
- 3,75 z 5
- Anotace
- Only Nick Tosches, best-selling author of Dino and The Devil and Sonny Liston , could have woven this irresistible tale: part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music. A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the centre of this riveting narrative. For twenty years, Nick Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodelling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues and much of the popular music of the twentieth century. Beginning with a handful of 78-rpm records and ending at a tombstone in a Macon, Georgia, graveyard, Tosches pieces together a life - and illuminates the spirit of music makers from Cab Calloway to Bob Dylan, from Homer to the Rolling Stones. This is a brilliant, inspired journey by one of the most original writers at work today.