Ragged Glories
City Lights, Country Funk, American Music
$24.85
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
7 August 2003
Summary
Ragged Glories is a hymn to the USA - to its pop, soul, country and blues - from the author of the acclaimed Across the Great Divide (about The Band) and Waiting for the Sun (about Los Angeles). Here Barney Hoskyns collects some of his best pieces about American music and pop culture from the last 20 years. From Prince to Pavement, James Brown to Joni Mitchell, ZZ Top to Tom Waits, Beck to Eminem, the former US editor of MOJO burrows deep into the heart of America’s greatest music. Probing in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712604680 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0712604685 |
| Author: | Barney Hoskyns |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 August 2003 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Barney Hoskyns
Barney Hoskyns was born in England in 1959 and began writing for the New Musical Express after leaving Oxford. He has since written for The Times, the New Statesman, Guardian, Spin, the Los Angeles Reader, Creem, Vogue, and many other publications. In 1987 his acclaimed study of Southern soul music, Say it One Time for the Brokenhearted, was published. He is also the author of Imp of the Perverse (a study of Prince), From a Whisper to a Scream- The Great Voices, and Beautiful Loser, about Montgomery Clift. Barney Hoskyns lives in London with his wife and two sons.
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