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Throwing Frisbees At The Sun - A Book About Beck (Paperback)
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Throwing Frisbees At The Sun - A Book About Beck (Paperback)
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At a time in rock and pop history where most things in music have
been done before, few artists have proved as restlessly innovative
over the past two decades as Beck. Since bursting onto the scene in
1994 with 'Loser', he has zigzagged his way across the contemporary
music landscape, consistently remaining one step ahead of
expectations and doing things his own way: shape-shifting from
indie icon to pop crooner, from folk hobo to Latino-rap hipster,
and dabbling in country metal, blues and rock along the way,
balancing big-budget chart highs with lower-key, introspective
acoustic albums. Beck hails from a family tree rich in music and
performance art, which has filtered into his music, videos, and
live work. Early shows included spoken word sections, songs made up
on the spot, and stage clearances using his leaf-blower. His
enthusiasm for the experimental has not diminished with age. In the
21st century, he founded the Record Club, which brought together
disparate artists to record cover versions of whole albums in a
single day for release online. Then he took a troupe of
doppelganger marionettes out on tour and made the brave decision to
release Song Reader as a hardcover set of sheet music, challenging
buyers to record and play their own versions of his new songs.
Throwing Frisbees at the Sun is the first serious study of Beck's
life and work for more than a decade. Drawing on new interviews
with friends, family, collaborators, producers, and band-members,
Rob Jovanovic has fashioned a carefully crafted, career-spanning
retrospective befitting the many twists and turns of this
intriguing performer's path through life and music.
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