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Nick Tosches nous embarque dans le fin fond de la culture américaine redneck mais pas tant, congrégationaliste mais pas tant (quoique si, quand même...), dans la pauvreté blanche d'une Amérique qui en dehors ses frontières vendait du rêves... Toujours aussi pointu et provocateur, Tosches ous assène moult assertions de son cru, mouline à l'envie les références, fait revivre les grands loosers et ressort de l'oubli des chefs d'oeuvre de la musique que lui seul perçoit comme tel. On y croit, on en redemande !!!

 

Tosches displays not only a historian's love for the eras he writes about, but a gossip columnist's passion for irreverence and shock. That makes this book and its companion (Unsung Heroes of Rock & Roll) completely essential reads for anyone who loves popular twentieth century music. And, it blows the lid off country's origins in a way guaranteed to outrage country's often-times "holier-than-thou" patrons. Obscure names, obscure songs, obscure facts all mesh to create a living, breathing historical time-capsule that speaks as much about the era the music was recorded in as the music itself. And the writing is dry yet never condescending, witty yet never demeaning, sincere yet unafraid to point out "the truth" no matter how ugly and undignified it may be. But you'll learn to love the heroes that pepper this book for the pioneers they were. And, when the last page is read, you'll come back to it again and again. Part of the pleasure of reading a great book is rereading it and learning much more than you did the last time you read it... Tosches manages that feat thanks to an unflinching eye for detail and a poet's way with words.

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Nick Tosches nous embarque dans le fin fond de la culture américaine redneck mais pas tant, congrégationaliste mais pas tant (quoique si, quand même...), dans la pauvreté blanche d'une Amérique qui en dehors ses frontières vendait du rêves... Toujours aussi pointu et provocateur, Tosches ous assène moult assertions de son cru, mouline à l'envie les références, fait revivre les grands loosers et ressort de l'oubli des chefs d'oeuvre de la musique que lui seul perçoit comme tel. On y croit, on en redemande !!!

 

Tosches displays not only a historian's love for the eras he writes about, but a gossip columnist's passion for irreverence and shock. That makes this book and its companion (Unsung Heroes of Rock & Roll) completely essential reads for anyone who loves popular twentieth century music. And, it blows the lid off country's origins in a way guaranteed to outrage country's often-times "holier-than-thou" patrons. Obscure names, obscure songs, obscure facts all mesh to create a living, breathing historical time-capsule that speaks as much about the era the music was recorded in as the music itself. And the writing is dry yet never condescending, witty yet never demeaning, sincere yet unafraid to point out "the truth" no matter how ugly and undignified it may be. But you'll learn to love the heroes that pepper this book for the pioneers they were. And, when the last page is read, you'll come back to it again and again. Part of the pleasure of reading a great book is rereading it and learning much more than you did the last time you read it... Tosches manages that feat thanks to an unflinching eye for detail and a poet's way with words.

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