Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MRU59CS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 422 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-06 |
| 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 Betsy Mae 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 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
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 veteran of stage and screen, Peter Berkrot's career spans four decades, and his voice can be heard on television, radio, video games, and documentaries. He has been nominated for
“When it comes to funk and words, lyrics and language, there couldn’t be a better pairing than Ben Greenman and Prince. I love his sentences, his precision. From my experience with both of them, this is the perfect match, like ham hocks and cornflakes.”George ClintonPraise for Ben Greenman “Greenman understands the power of music all too well.” Newsday "Incapable of writing anything dry or familiar or expected. I feel like he&rsqu
Greenman's take on Prince is the autobiography of a generation and its ideas. 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, rewrote the rules of identity, and redefined the role of sex in pop music.A polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton and Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. 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. Asking a series of questions—not 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.. 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, experime