Rob Chapman

Broschiertes Buch

Psychedelia and Other Colours

Beschreibung

Fifty years on from the psychedelic summer of love, the author, an acclaimed music writer explores what was really going on during those heady times. In America, he traces the multi-media history of the Light shows, Happenings, Be-Ins and Acid tests, and illustrates the thriving avant-garde scene that existed long before the Grateful Dead.

Autor

Rob Chapman is currently the holder of a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at The University of Manchester. He was for a long time a freelance radio broadcaster with the BBC national network and a music journalist. His work has appeared in Mojo , The Times, The Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Word and Jockey Slut. He is the author of Selling the Sixties: The Pirates and Pop Music Radio (1992), The Vinyl Junkyard (1996) and the acclaimed biography Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head (2010). His first novel Dusk Music was published in 2008. He lives in Todmorden, Lancashire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber / Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 855g
• ISBN-13: 9780571282746
• ISBN-10: 0571282741
• Artikelnr.: 43916154

Rezensionen

A fantastic, exhaustive history of the genre: comprehensive but gripping, packed with eye-opening period detail and with a brilliant analysis of everything from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to the oeuvre of the Crocheted Doughnut Ring. Alexis Petridis Guardian