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Why Karen Carpenter Matters (Paperback)
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters (Paperback)
Series: Music Matters
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Loot Price R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous
excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such
as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting
harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her
brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of
tragedy-the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age
thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen
Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents
named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer's
rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the
Philippines-where imitations of American pop styles flourished-and
Karen Carpenter's home ground of Southern California. Tongson
reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed
musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound
significance for her-as well as for other people of color, LGBT+
communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually
associated with Karen Carpenter's legacy. This hybrid of memoir and
biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of
the Carpenters' sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all
too brief life.
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