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Night Beat eBooks
by MIKAL GILMORE
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Night Beat Summary
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Few journalists have staked a territory as unforgettably as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Night Beat gathers, for the first time, Gilmore's cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings, resulting in a history of rock & roll from one of our most informed and eloquent chroniclers of American music. Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as rock evolved from fad to phenomenon, hearing in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and following the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. And like no one else, Mikal Gilmore translates the lone voices: Al Green, Marianne Faithfull, Frank Sinatra. From Presley to punk, from Miles Davis to Tupac Shakur, Gilmore shows readers late twentieth-century life through the inimitable lens of rock & roll, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics and redemption.
"Smart and wise... takes us on eloquent detours and past revolutionary signposts to the music of peace and unrest." BOSTON GLOBE "A thoughtful and |
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Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as its youth responded to the postwar economic and political climate. He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and charts the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. Mikal Gilmore describes Bruce Springsteen's America and the problem of Michael Jackson. And like no one else, Gilmore listens to the lone voices: Al Green, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor, Frank Sinatra. Four decades of American life are observed through the inimitable lens of rock and roll, and through the provocative and intelligent voice of one of the most committed chroniclers of American music, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics, and redemption. |
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