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Ray Davies : not like everybody else / Thomas M. Kitts.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.D25 K57 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kitts, Thomas M., 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davies, Ray, 1944-.
- Davies, Ray.
- Rock musicians--England--Biography.
- Rock musicians.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- England.
- Kinks (Musical group).
- Davies, Ray, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Summary:
- In Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else, Tom Kitts presents a critical biography of Davies, his music and his times. Based on interviews with his closest associates as well as thorough study of the recordings themselves, Kitts creates the most thorough picture of Davies' work to date. He places the work in the context of the British Invasion and growth of the rock in the '60s and'70s, affirming Davies' role as a key innovator whose groundbreaking techniques often predated more famous examples by years. Throughout, Kitts balances a fan's appreciation with a critical eye to place Davies and his work in proper perspective.For fans of rock music and the music of the Kinks, Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else will be a must purchase. It will finally place this legendary innovator in the pantheon of the great rock artists of the past half-century.
- Contents:
- Not like everybody else : the shaping of Ray Davies, part I
- Something better beginning : the shaping of Ray Davies, part II
- You really got me : finding a sound and a theme
- A well respected man : satirist, ironist, and social commentator
- Waterloo sunset : the romantic imagination of Ray Davies
- The Village Green Preservation Society : time, place, and identity
- Arthur : world wars and class culture
- A long way from home : competing identities
- Here comes Flash : the rock musicals
- Juke box music : alienation and love
- Think visual : TV, CD, and stage
- 20th century man : the 1990s and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415977685
- 0415977681
- 9780415977692
- 041597769X
- 9780203935637
- 0203935632
- OCLC:
- 173749156
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