Song noir : Tom Waits and the spirit of Los Angeles
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Published
London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
Format
Book
ISBN
1789146631, 9781789146639
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240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Published
London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
Language
English
ISBN
1789146631, 9781789146639
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Description
"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 (1973), to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones (1983). Starting his song-writing career in the '70s, Waits absorbed LA'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. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing and emblematic; a vision of LA as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations." -- Back cover.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 782.42166 WAI HAR | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Harvey, A. (2022). Song noir: Tom Waits and the spirit of Los Angeles . Reaktion Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harvey, Alex. 2022. Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles. Reaktion Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harvey, Alex. Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles Reaktion Books, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Harvey, Alex. Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles Reaktion Books, 2022.
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