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Listening to Van Morrison (Paperback, Main)
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Listening to Van Morrison (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R302
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'Van Morrison, ' says Greil Marcus, 'remains a singer who can be
compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.' When
Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it
was re-released as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the
Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild
swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison's success and
in people's appreciation (or lack of it) of his music, make Van
Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in
popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and
insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus, one of America's most
dedicated cultural critics. This book is Marcus's quest to
understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the
extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career,
beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In
these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic
quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the
moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the
performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician
and his song.
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