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Nick Drake : dreaming England / Nathan Wiseman-Trowse.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.D82 W57 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiseman-Trowse, Nathan, author.
- Series:
- Reverb.
- Reverb
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drake, Nick, 1948-1974.
- Drake, Nick.
- Singers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Singers.
- Great Britain.
- Folk music--Great Britain.
- Folk music.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 172 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 2013.
- Summary:
- Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of 26, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience, one that eluded him in his lifetime. His small but much-loved body of work has come to represent the epitome of English mystical romanticism, prompting comparisons with Keats, Blake, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Delius and other poets and composers allied to that tradition. Yet, on closer inspection Drake's work betrays a myriad of international, cosmopolitan influences and approaches that seem to confound his status as archetypal English troubadour. Drake's interest in blues, jazz and Eastern mysticism embraced a broader idea of English national identity in the late 1960s, one far removed from nostalgic pastoralism. Similarly, the framing of Drake's music after his death has done much to situate him as a particular kind of English artist, one who evokes both the Anglo-American hippy counterculture and an older England defined by class and empire. Nick Drake: Dreaming England explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be so intimately associated with the cult singer songwriter. Essential reading for his fans, this book will also appeal to those interested in folk music or English national identity. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Dreaming England 19
- 2 Listening to the Land 39
- 3 The Country and the City 66
- 4 Melancholia and Loss 93
- 5 Drake's Legacy 112.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index.
- Includes discography (pages 157-159).
- ISBN:
- 9781780231761
- 1780231768
- 9781780232119
- 178023211X
- OCLC:
- 858076858
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