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Nick Drake: Dreaming England de Nathan Wiseman-Trowse

Nick Drake: Dreaming England: Reverb

Autor Nathan Wiseman-Trowse
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2013
 Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English romanticism. But while his small body of work has evoked poetic comparisons with Blake and Keats, closer inspection of Drake’s music reveals many global and cosmopolitan influences that confound his status as an archetypal English troubadour. In this book, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Drake and his work and explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be intimately associated with the cult musician.
 
Probing deeply into Drake’s music for clues, Wiseman-Trowse finds hints of the English landscape that Drake would have wandered through during his lifetime, but he also uncovers traces of blues, jazz, and eastern mysticism that hint at a broader conception of English national identity in the late 1960s, one far removed from parochial nostalgia. Wiseman-Trowse then looks at how Drake’s music has been framed since his death, showing how Drake has been situated as a particular kind of English artist that integrates American counterculture, the English class system, and a nostalgic reimagining of the hippie era. An appealing story of folk music and English national identity, this book is essential reading for any fan of Nick Drake.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781780231761
ISBN-10: 1780231768
Pagini: 172
Ilustrații: 30 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Reverb

Notă biografică

 Nathan Wiseman-Trowse is a senior lecturer in popular culture at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the author of Performing Class in British Popular Music.

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION
1 DREAMING ENGLAND
2 LISTENING TO THE LAND
3 THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY
4 MELANCHOLIA AND LOSS
5 DRAKE’S LEGACY
Chronology
References
Select Bibliography
Discography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

“Wiseman-Trowse analyses what [Nick Drake’s] Englishness consists of: the sense of wistfulness and melancholy, the strain of romanticism, and the pastoral landscapes evoked by his melodies and lyrics, as well as the solitary, contemplative images of Drake used for album covers and publicity shots. . . . It’s an astute analysis, and an evocative reminder of the handful (fewer than 40) of beautiful, delicate songs Drake left us.”