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Flying Saucers Rock `n` Roll – Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock `n` Soul Eccentrics: Refiguring American Music

Autor Jake Austen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 aug 2011
For nearly twenty years, the much-beloved music magazine Roctober has featured work by some of the best underground cartoonists, exhaustive examinations of made-up genres such as "robot rock," and an ongoing exploration of everything Sammy Davis Jr. ever sang, said, or did. But the heart of the magazine has always been the lengthy conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists. Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll gathers the most compelling of these interviews. Eccentric, important artists, including rockabilly icon Billy Lee Riley, the jazz musician and activist Oscar Brown Jr, the Outlaw Country singer David Allan Coe, and the pioneer rock 'n' roll group the Treniers, give the most in-depth interviews of their lengthy careers. Obscure musicians, such as the Armenian-language novelty artist Guy Chookoorian, and the frustrated interstellar glam act Zolar X, reveal fascinating lives lived at rock's margins. Roctober's legendarily dedicated writers convey telling anecdotes in the fervent, captivating prose that has long been appreciated by music enthusiasts. Along with the entertaining interviews, Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll features more than sixty images from the pages of Roctober, and ten illustrations created for the book by the underground rock 'n' roll artist King Merinuk.Contributors: Steve Albini; Ben Austen; Jake Austen; John Battles; Bosco; Ken Burke; Mike Maltese; King Merinuk; Ken Mottet; Jonathan Poletti; James Porter; "Colonel" Dan Sorenson; Jacqueline Stewart
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822348498
ISBN-10: 0822348497
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 74 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Cuprins

List of Figures; Foreword / Steve Albini; AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Hi Yo, Silver! / Jake Austen1. Oscar Brown Jr. / James Porter; 2. David Allan Coe / Jake Austen. Interview conducted by Jake Austen, Bosco, James Porter, and Bosco; 3. Guy Chookoorian / Jake Austen; 4. The Fast / Jake Austen; 5. Sugar Pie DeSanto / James Porter; 6. Billy Lee Riley / Ken Burke; 7. The Treniers / John Battles. Interview conducted by John Battles, Jake Austen, Mike Maltese, Ken Mottet, and Dan Sorenson; 8. Sam the Sham / James Porter; 9. The Good Rats / Jake Austen. Interview conducted by Jake Austen, Jacqueline Stewart, and Ben Austen; 10. Zolar X / Jonathan PolettiAppendix. Suggested Listening, Viewing, Surfing; Contributors; Index

Recenzii

"...a collection of memorable stories from this microscopic jewel, "Flying Saucers Rock N' Roll....I'll vouch, Jake Austen doesn't (expletive) around." Liz Mason quoted in the Chicago Tribune
"Jake Austen has the brains of a world-class scholar driven to illuminate previously obscure but vital arcana, the soul of an historian eager to bring the past roaring back to life, and the heart of a furious but funny rock ’n’ roll hell-raiser. As the majordomo of Roctober, fronting a posse of like-minded and equally passionate fellow travellers, he has picked up the mantle of that first-generation rock-critic giant Nick Tosches and at long last given us his answer to Unsung Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll. Yes, Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll really is a book worthy of being mentioned in that company, and it’s a must for any serious rock reader’s bookshelf." Jim DeRogatis, critic, author, educator and co-host of Sound Opinions, the world’s only rock ’n’ roll talk show
"With an awe-inspiringly integrated and thoroughly unassuming knowledge of all the nooks, crannies and hidden corners of American popular culture, there’s no more appropriate cheerleader for musical humanity than Jake Austen, a polymath force of nature who’s been amazing me for twenty years. If any of the rest of us had just a hundredth of the energy, enthusiasm and big-heartedness that Jake seems to show every project he undertakes, the world would be a much better place--and a lot more fun." Chris Ware cartoonist and author of Jimmy Corrigan - The Smartest Kid on Earth
"Flying Saucers Rock ‘N’ Roll contains ten fascinating, bittersweet and often very funny interviews with “unjustly obscure rock ‘n’ soul eccentrics” that will delight fans of Nick Tosches’ Unsung Heroes Of Rock And Roll. Both books share a love for the slow-to-die dreams of a handful of hardcore survivors of one of the most unforgiving industries in the modern world, the music industry." Marc Campbell, DangerousMinds.net
"Serving as both a brief history of Roctober and an anthology, this collection of interviews will be welcome by fans of the zine and will appeal to serious rock ’n’ roll readers. Those who enjoyed Richie Unterberger’s Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of ’60s Rock will also appreciate this book." Joshua Finnell, Library Journal
"One of the most impressive elements of these profiles, other than the sheer detail, is the loving patience with which these artists are examined, analyzed and, yes, judged. This may be a celebration of the marginal and obscure, but its not a simple geek-out for the sake of the geek-out. Austen and his fellow writers ask tough questions and, at times, point out the reasons why the cult figure (or the not-quite-cult-figure) has just never attracted a large following." Jake Austen PopMatters.com

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Gathers the most compelling of interviews with overlooked or forgotten artists in Roctober