It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865479046 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Through interviews, road stories, and rich music criticism, Petrusich traces the rise of Americana music from its early origins to its new and compelling incarnations—from Elvis to Iron and Wine, the Carter Family to Animal Collective, Charley Patton to Wilco. Part travelogue, part musical history, Amanda Petrusich’s It Still Moves outlines the sounds of the new, weird America—honoring the rich traditions of gospel, blues, country, folk, and rock that feed it while simultaneously exploring the American character as personified by its songs and landscapes. Ultimately, It Still Moves is a fervent attempt to reconcile the American past with the American present, using only dusty records and highway maps as guide
S. Sokoll said Might have been an Interesting Blog. This book seems like it started as a blog, with a road trip to significant American music locations. But this is a thin idea for a book. The first 100 dart across Tennessee to Graceland, down US 61 into Mississippi, up to Nashville, and so on. The author derives no real insights from the travel (her comments on Nashville seem focused on the convention business).Slogging on she gets into an extended discusiion/definition of alt country music. The writing is uninspired and offers few insights.. A must read for anyone interested in American music roots Reading this book this book is the next best thing to taking the road trip yourself. Amanda Petrusich's prose is captivating and transformative. At the book's end I was simultaneously left homesick for my beloved south and jonesing for a road trip to Brooklyn!. "It Keeps Moving" according to Jason Woodbury. Fantastic book. Petrusich's voice is clear and engaging, and her travelogue approach makes for a pleasurable and vivid romp through the various ways we define "American Music" and the places it comes from. Petrusich's "Americana" is slippery and hard to pin down, but that's what makes it so much fun to read about and consider.
“A contemplative journey through the history of folk, country, blues and rock ’n’ roll.” —JUDY BERMAN, Salon“In this sharply observed, intensely felt audio-travelogue, Americana emerges less as a sound or musical genre than as an imaginary country, a dreamland superimposed over the real U.S.A., a salve for that feeling of hollowness that haunts modern urban existence.” —SIMON REYNOLDS, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984“Like a smart, genial Persephone, Amanda Petrusich wanders the underworld of American roots music and reports back her insights with an open mind and an open heart.” &md