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Unstrung : rants and stories of a noise guitarist / Marc Ribot.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML418.R485 A5 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ribot, Marc, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ribot, Marc.
- Guitarists--United States.
- Guitarists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- Throughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here, in his first collection of writing, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music, life, and death. Through essays, short stories, and the occasional unfilmable film "mistreatment" that showcase the sheer range of his voice, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I LIES AND DISTORTION
- Lies and Distortion
- Guitars
- Frantz Casseus
- Horn Section
- Robert Quine
- The Attack on Artists' Rights and Me
- Maybe There's Something There: Three Short Riffs on Derek Bailey
- World Music: Time and Money
- Still Things That Move: The Poetry of Henry Grimes
- Songs of Resistance
- Playing Hal Willner Home
- pt. II EVERYBODY'S A WINNER
- We Tell Children the Cow Says Moo
- A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Asshole
- I Watched from My Room as the Bicyclist Was Run Down
- Everybody's a Winner
- Pale Blue Eyes
- It Was Almost Like Paris
- O Say Can You See
- The Lido of Something, Near Ravenna
- Kaddish for Joan
- The Twenty-Three-Day Tour
- Putting Your Arms around a Memory
- Today I Did Something Remarkable
- pt. III FILM (MIS)TREATMENTS
- Party Boat [unfilmable treatment #1]
- Three-Star Desperadoes (or, Biting the Hand)
- Hungry: A Thirty-Minute Real-Time One-Take Disaster Film
- Dialogue of the Sushi Eaters
- Death in Venus
- The Club-Date Musician (or, Saturday Night Nausea)
- Whale Watching [unfilmable treatment #17]
- Shark Watching: A Series [unfilmable treatments #18-?]
- Bates Airbnb
- pt. IV SORRY, WE'RE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
- The Man Who Didn't Know How [tech failure #1]
- Once There Was a Man Named Harry Who Couldn't Tie His Shoelaces
- The Man with the Fun Job
- Botox [tech failure #2]
- The Boy Who Grafted Himself to a Tree
- For Mauritzio
- Wilderness [tech failure #3]
- Bird
- Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
- The Activist (or, Twistin' Time Is Here)
- IRL.
- ISBN:
- 9781617759307
- 1617759309
- OCLC:
- 1226689474
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