Harvey Alex Harvey

Song Noir (eBook, ePUB)

Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A gritty, smoke-filled, and boozy account of musician Tom Waits's formative decade in Los Angeles. Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits's career, when he lived, wrote, and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles: from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time in 1973, to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones in 1983. Starting his songwriting career in the seventies, Waits absorbed Los Angeles's wealth of cultural influences. Combining the spoken idioms of writers like Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms, he explored the city's literary and film noir traditions to create hallucinatory dreamscapes. Waits mined a rich seam of the city's low-life locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark imagination. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing and emblematic, a vision of Los Angeles as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789146646
• Artikelnr.: 72466481

Autorenporträt

Alex Harvey is a producer and director of programs including Panorama and The Late Show for the BBC. His films include The Lives of Animals and Enter the Jungle. Based in Los Angeles, he regularly writes on literature, film, and music for the London Review of Books and Los Angeles Review of Books.