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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
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- Titel
- Where Dead Voices Gather
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Nick Tosches
- Verlag
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0224063154
- ISBN13
- 9780224063159
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Musikalische Thematik, USA, Biographien, Darstellende Kunst, Jazz, Populäre Musik
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.