Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits’
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. Waits mined a rich seam of the city’s low-life
locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark
imagination. 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Reaktion Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Reverb |
| Release date: |
July 2022 |
| Authors: |
Alex Harvey
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78914-663-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-78914-663-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781789146639 |
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