Like young : jazz and pop, youth and middle age
"Modern jazz and rock 'n' roll, both of which were once identified with youthful insurrection, have reached middle age. So have many longtime listeners - including Francis Davis, the peerless music and cultural critic for the Atlantic Monthly, who admits early in this new collection that he, "once thought Britney Spears was a porn star and Daisy Fuentes was one of those women third world novelists I really ought to try reading." "As in his previous collections - in the Moment, Outcats, and Bebop and Nothingness - Davis here captures the heat and the larger sociological meanings of jazz. Moving from Billie Holiday to Ornette Coleman to Sun Ra, he examines a wide range of jazz both old and new, on stage and screen. But what makes Like Young Davis's most personal book, as well as his most surprising are the chapters on such pop icons as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, and Lou Reed. Using himself as an example, going beyond character sketch and detached inquiry, Davis pinpoints our collective longing for a mythologized time when both we and our music were younger - and more inclined to take risks."--BOOK JACKET
Aufsatzsammlung
xx, 348 pages ; 22 cm
9780306810565, 9780306811869, 0306810565, 0306811863
53096811
Swing and sensibility (Frank Sinatra)
The great Hoagy (Hoagy Carmichael)
Not singing too much (Dave Frishberg)
Billie Holiday, cover artist
Betty Carter, for example
Bud's bubble (Bud Powell)
The sound of one finger snapping (Miles Davis and Kind of Blue)
Aftershocks (McCoy Tyner)
Taken: The true story of an alien abduction (Sun Ra)
Rashaan, Rashaan (Rashaan Roland Kirk)
Inward (Walt Dickerson)
A to Z (Paul Bley)
Charlie Haden, Bass
?Ornette (Ornette Coleman)
The 1970s, religious and circus (Wildflowers and Arthur Blythe)
Like young (Joshua Redman and James Carter)
In his father's house (Ravi Coltrane)
Leaving behind a trail (Dave Douglas)
Some recordings (Ruby Braff, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Jackie McLean, Lee Koontz, Sam Rivers, Don Byron)
On stage and screen (Side Man, Sweet and Lowdown, Ken Burn's Jazz)
Tourist point of view
Time Difference
Man lost, songs found (Ted Hawkins)
Country vs. Western (Pee Wee King)
Elvis Presley's double consciousness
Beached (Brian Wilson)
Everybody's composer (Burt Bacarach)
The best years of our lives (Bob Dylan)
Infamous (The Velvet Underground)
Victim kitsch (Rent)
The moral of the story from the guy who knows (Dion)
Collection of previously published articles, essays, etc., all but one of which were published within the last five years
Includes index
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