Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250128374 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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package came on time but honestly the book was lame William Otey The package came on time but honestly the book was lametypical writer trying to critique a modern day Mozartand as a hardcore Prince fan I spotted a few inaccuracies! Anyhow if u are true Prince pass on this and get Mayte's the beautiful one instead!. Not quite what I expected but a decent read for Prince music lovers This book focuses almost exclusively on Prince's music. I loved Prince so it was still an interesting read, but it wasn't quite what I expected. The author dove deep into different albums, songs, lyrics, beats/rhythms, etc. and was clearly a huge fan in his own right.. "This is no dull chronicling of events" according to Eric Greenwood. Greenman's book is a deeply intellectual and analytical look at Prince's impact on music, film, fashion, and culture. While there are biographical details strewn throughout, Greenman doesn't focus on the same old stories Prince fans have absorbed over the years. This is no dull chronicling of events. Instead, the author mines the more esoteric aspects of Prince's indelible influence on modern culture through the lens of his personal experie
From my experience with both of them, this is the perfect match, like ham hocks and cornflakes.”George Clinton?"?Prince’s genius is on full display here as Greenman remarks on his prolific music virtuosity, putting out an album once a year, and his obsessive dedication to saving every little scrap of his writing and recording to use again. He is one of the most versatile, consistently surprising writers at work today.” Dave Eggers “Brilliant and wry” Karen Russell“Greenman rarely plays a wrong chord.&r
. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad
A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Asking a series of questionsnot only “Who was Prince?” but “Who wasn’t he?” and “Who are we?”Dig if You Will the Picture is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary talent.. Greenman's take on Prince is the autobiography of a generation and its ideas. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince’s music to tell both his story and the story of the paradigm-shifting ideas that he communicated to his millions of fans around the world. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race and gender, re