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Song noir : Tom Waits and the spirit of Los Angeles
Title:
Song noir : Tom Waits and the spirit of Los Angeles
Author:
Credits:
Alex Harvey.
Publication Date(s):
2022
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series:
Reverb
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Bibliography Note:
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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Document ID:
SD_ILS:1740844
Language:
English
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