Like young : jazz and pop, youth and middle age / Francis Davis.
| Author/creator | Davis, Francis, 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First Da Capo Press edition. |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, ©2001. |
| Description | xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Voices. Swing and sensibility (Frank Sinatra) -- The great Hoagy (Hoagy Carmichael) -- Not singing too much (Dave Frishberg) -- Billie Holiday, cover artist -- Betty Carter, for example -- Change of the century. Bud's bubble (Bud Powell) -- The sound of one finger snapping (Miles Davis and Kind of Blue) -- Aftershocks (McCoy Tyner) -- Taken: The true story of an alien abduction (Sun Ra) -- Rashaan, Rashaan (Rashaan Roland Kirk) -- Inward (Walt Dickerson) -- A to Z (Paul Bley) -- Charlie Haden, Bass -- Ornette (Ornette Coleman) -- The 1970s, religious and circus (Wildflowers and Arthur Blythe) -- Like young (Joshua Redman and James Carter) -- In his father's house (Ravi Coltrane) -- Leaving behind a trail (Dave Douglas) -- Some recordings (Ruby Braff, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Jackie McLean, Lee Koontz, Sam Rivers, Don Byron) -- On stage and screen (Side Man, Sweet and Lowdown, Ken Burn's Jazz) -- Here and there. Tourist point of view -- Time difference -- Undercover. Man lost, songs found (Ted Hawkins) -- Country vs. Western (Pee Wee King) -- Elvis Presley's double consciousness -- Beached (Brian Wilson) -- Everybody's composer (Burt Bacarach) -- The best years of our lives (Bob Dylan) -- Infamous (The Velvet Underground) -- Victim kitsch (Rent) -- The moral of the story from the guy who knows (Dion). |
| Abstract | Modern jazz and rock 'n' roll, both of which were once identified with youthful insurrection, have reached middle age. So have many longtime listeners--including Francis Davis, the peerless music and cultural critic for the Atlantic Monthly, who admits early in this new collection that he, "once thought Britney Spears was a porn star and Daisy Fuentes was one of those women third world novelists I really ought to try reading." As in his previous collections--in the Moment, Outcats, and Bebop and Nothingness--Davis here captures the heat and the larger sociological meanings of jazz. Moving from Billie Holiday to Ornette Coleman to Sun Ra, he examines a wide range of jazz both old and new, on stage and screen. But what makes this the author's most personal book, as well as his most surprising are the chapters on such pop icons as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, and Lou Reed. Using himself as an example, going beyond character sketch and detached inquiry, the author pinpoints our collective longing for a mythologized time when both we and our music were younger--and more inclined to take risks. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Collection of previously published articles, essays, etc., all but one of which were published in the mid 1990s. |
| ISBN | 0306810565 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3506 .D39 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |