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Night Beat

Gilmore, Mikal

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Night Beat

Few journalists have staked a territory as passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Night Beat gathers, for the first time, Gilmore's cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the seismic changes in America as rock evolved from fad to phenomenon. He hears in the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the voices of unrest and fervor, and follows the rise and fall of punk in brilliant essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash. And like no one else, Mikal Gilmore translates the lone voices: Al Green, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor, Frank Sinatra.

The essays in Night Beat chart not only the progress of an unforgettable career, but four decades of unforgettable music, from Presley to punk, from Miles Davis to Tupac Shakur. Gilmore shows readers late twentieth-century life through the inimitable lens of rock and roll, proving his stature as one of the most committed chroniclers of American music, and its powerful expressions of love, soul, politics, and redemption.

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Title of ebook: Night Beat
ISBN: 9780385500296
Publisher: Doubleday
Internet download file size: 954 kb
Released online for download: 09-01-2000
Author of eBook: Gilmore, Mikal

Night Beat

A Shadow of Rock & Roll
I guess I could say what many people of my age--or people who are younger or even older--might be able to say: I grew up with popular music encompassing my life. It played as a soundtrack for my youth. It enhanced (sometimes created) my memories. It articulated losses, angers, and horrible (as in unattainable) hopes, and it emboldened me in many, many dark hours. It also, as much as anything else in my life, defined my convictions and my experience of what it meant (and still means) to be an American, and it gave me a moral (and of course immoral) guidance that nothing else in my life ever matched, short of dreams of sheer generous love or of sheer ruthless rapacity or destruction. I can remember my mother playing piano, singing to me her much-loved songs of Patsy Cline and ... read full excerpt from Night Beat ebook