Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Harvey, Alex (19..-.... ; auteur et réalisateur)
Titre(s) : Song noir [Texte imprimé] : Tom Waits and the spirit of Los Angeles / Alex Harvey
Publication : London : Reaktion Books, 2022
Description matérielle : 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection : Reverb
Lien à la collection : Reverb (London)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226), discography, and index
"Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits's career, when he lived,
wrote and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles; from his soft, folk-inflected debut,
Closing Time (1973), to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones (1983). Starting
his song-writing career in the '70s, Waits absorbed LA's wealth of cultural influences.
Combining the spoken idioms of writers like Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms,
he explored the city's literary and film noir traditions to create hallucinatory dreamscapes.
Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned quotidian, autobiographical details
into something more disturbing and emblematic; a vision of LA as the warped, narcotic
heart of his nocturnal explorations." -- Back cover
Sujet(s) : Waits, Tom (1949-....)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
782.421 66092 (23e éd.) = Rock (chansons) - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781789146639. - ISBN 1789146631. - ISBN 9781789146646 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470872877
Notice n° :
FRBNF47087287
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: crawling down Cahuenga ; Riding with lady luck ; Neon buzzin' ;
Everything's broken ; I'm never going home ; In the neighborhood ; Conclusion:
a strange home of your own.
