33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. (A task which can be, as Elvis Costello famously observed, as tricky as dancing about architecture.) What binds this series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors - musicians, scholars, and writers - are deeply in love with the album they have chosen.
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CONTRIBUTORS: John Perry
EAN: 9780826415714
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 140 g
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PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-05-01
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GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, Pop music, Rock, Popular music, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups
.".. Perry is quite the raconteur. His blow-by-blow commentary on Hendrix and company's musical dialogue throughout the album's tracks leaps off the page like an epic martial arts battle."- Joe Pettit, "Ugly Things, "Issue 25--Sanford Lakoff, "This is actually two books in one: a track-by-track analysis of "Ladyland," heavy on guitar-geek esoteria like detuning and wah-wah technique (if you have to ask, don't bother), preceded by an overview of Hendrix's life and career around the time of the album. Which, since his career as a headliner lasted only four short years, makes for a pretty good introduction to rock's greatest plank-spanker." Austin American-Statesman, 10/17/04, ."..Perry is quite the raconteur. His blow-by-blow commentary on Hendrix andcompany's musical dialogue throughout the album's tracks leaps off the pagelike an epic martial arts battle."- Joe Pettit, "Ugly Things, "Issue 25--,, " an inspired new series sleekly designed good news for sentimental fools that just can't let go."" -Janet Steen, Details magazine, Jan/Feb 04", any fan of the Hendrix sound will consider it an essential guide. The Bookwatch, September 2004
John Perry explores Hendrix's extraordinary double album of 1968.
