Więcej informacji o Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!

• Dane szczegółowe
• Opis
• Ulubione w innej kategorii

Za ten zakup dostaniesz 400 punkty

Opis

In An Illustrated Book About Birds: Curt Kirkwood's Lyrics in the Original Meat Puppet,s Matthew Smith-Lahrman interprets the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock and roll band of the last thirty years. Smith-Lahrman's analysis covers Kirkwood's lyrics on nine albums from the original line-up of the band covering 1983 to 1995. Kirkwood wrote virtually every lyric for the band during this period. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, too-long neglected songwriter of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His often oblique "cut-up" style not only recalls Dylan, but other great lyricists such as Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, and Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead, as well as poets and authors like John Milton, Arthur Rimbaud, Lewis Carroll, and William Burroughs. As a band, the original Meat Puppets spent their early career releasing albums on the seminal indie rock label SST Records, moving on to the major label London Records in the early nineties. Along the way they forged a unique blend of punk, country, psychedelic, and hard rock that paved the way for the grunge and alternative movements of the 1990s. As a lyricist, Kirkwood commonly addresses the nature of existence and the dichotomy between individual psyche and behavioral expectations this creates. His songs regularly cast a critical eye upon Christianity, reimagining it as a social construction that serves the purposes of the living, providing us with meaning in an otherwise purposeless life. As the original Meat Puppets began to dissolve, Kirkwood turned to writing about personal issues: his frustrations with the major label industry, the death of his mother, the addictions of his brother, and the demise of the band itself. An Illustrated Book About Birds looks at eighty-six of Kirkwood's penned songs, , starting with 1984's Meat Puppets II and ending with 1995's No Joke! . It is the perfect work for Meat Puppets fans worldwide.

Szczegóły książki

Kategoria Książki po angielsku The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Pełny tytuł: Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!
• Autor: Matthew Smith-Lahrman
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 294
• EAN: 9780810884120
• ISBN: 0810884127
• ID: 04929195
• Wydawca: Rowman & Littlefield
• Waga: 582 g
• Wymiary: 158 × 237 × 22 mm
• Data wydania: 15. October 2014

Ulubione w innej kategorii

---

---

---