Poetry. AMERICAN SONGBOOK is a poetic response to the grand sweep of recorded vocal music in the 20th century. The poems are based on 75 recordings, with singers ranging from Bessie Smith to Tupac Shakur, and songs from a little-known Lomax prison recording to the last No.1 pop hit in the century. Many musical traditions inform the poems, including blues, jazz, gospel, country, folk, bluegrass, electric blues, R&B, rock, disco and hip hop. "You can sing along to Michael Ruby's delirious new poems, your voice echoing down ...
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Poetry. AMERICAN SONGBOOK is a poetic response to the grand sweep of recorded vocal music in the 20th century. The poems are based on 75 recordings, with singers ranging from Bessie Smith to Tupac Shakur, and songs from a little-known Lomax prison recording to the last No.1 pop hit in the century. Many musical traditions inform the poems, including blues, jazz, gospel, country, folk, bluegrass, electric blues, R&B, rock, disco and hip hop. "You can sing along to Michael Ruby's delirious new poems, your voice echoing down (to mis-quote Fred Neil) 'the canyons of your mind,' until you can't sing any more and the poem goes off on its own. This book is like a blueprint for storming the castle--all the little guys in the tower shooting arrows as we cross the moat. Ruby's re-orchestrated and unfiltered versions of some of the greatest hits translates into a new way of reading--sure to drive you crazy in the best way."--Lewis Warsh
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Fine and bright stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Wonderful poems dedicated to various American musicians from Woody Guthrie to Jimi Hendrix.
