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Straight Into Darkness - Tom Petty as Rock Mystic (Paperback)
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Straight Into Darkness - Tom Petty as Rock Mystic (Paperback)
Series: Music of the American South Series
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List price R574
Loot Price R479
Discovery Miles 4 790
You Save R95 (17%)
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As Megan Volpert stood over train tracks preparing to surrender to
the psychedelic blindness of simple human misery, of all the
Heartbreakers tracks available to come through her headphones,
Straight Into Darkness is the one that did. In this highly
philosophical and deeply personal exploration of one obscure Tom
Petty song, Volpert's essays comb through the musical, historical,
rhetorical, and sociological implications of a forgotten gem in a
legendary catalog with satisfying results. Through this epic
celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Long After Dark
album, Petty and Volpert each emerge as modern mystics who argue
that in the face of powerlessness, we rebel anyway. Volpert judges
the forty years of Petty's career with one finger on the pulse of
Bob Dylan and an occasional whiff of Bruce Springsteen, looking at
the sometimes-violent mob scene of concerts as a type of
transcendent communion. Straight Into Darkness offers a compelling
vision of rock and roll fandom where the songwriter's hardworking
sense of humor is enough to save us from absurdity. All you need is
Albert Camus and a couple of chords.
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