Denim and Leather
Autor Michael Hannen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2022
Prezentat într-un format de istorie orală densă, acest volum de tip cronică muzicală ne invită să redescoperim energia brută a unei perioade care a redefinit sunetul chitărilor electrice. Observăm cum Michael Hann, fost editor muzical la The Guardian, reușește să transforme Denim and Leather într-o experiență tactilă și auditivă, unde poveștile despre ambiție și dezastru sunt relatate direct de cei care le-au trăit. Credem că forța acestei lucrări rezidă în capacitatea de a captura nu doar muzica, ci și estetica vizuală — acel amestec inconfundabil de piele și denim care a devenit uniforma globală a genului. Simțim ritmul alert al interviurilor care îi aduc laolaltă pe giganții de la Iron Maiden, Saxon sau Judas Priest, oferind o perspectivă intimă asupra modului în care niște tineri din provinciile britanice au reușit să cucerească stadioane din America de Sud până în Asia. Cititorii care au apreciat rigoarea din Nwobhm Encyclopedia (UK Only) de Malc Macmillan vor găsi aici aceeași pasiune pentru detaliu, însă filtrată printr-o narativă mult mai personală și anecdotică. De asemenea, dacă Wheels Of Steel de Martin Popoff s-a concentrat pe explozia primilor ani, lucrarea lui Hann oferă o viziune de ansamblu asupra întregului arc de evoluție și declin al mișcării. Deși autorul a explorat anterior structurile vizuale în lucrări precum Stripes, Grids and Checks sau Structure and Form in Design, aici își aplică finul spirit de observație asupra structurii unei subculturi. Este remarcabil cum Hann face tranziția de la analiza formelor geometrice la analiza formelor muzicale, păstrând o claritate critică ce lipsește adesea din biografiile de gen. Rezultatul este un tablou viu al unei epoci în care muzica grea și-a găsit identitatea definitivă.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1935950258
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 169 x 237 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.87 kg
Editura: Bazillion Points Books
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile metalului modern fără filtre academice aride. Cititorul câștigă acces la culisele unei revoluții culturale prin vocea directă a protagoniștilor, de la Lars Ulrich la Rob Halford. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru colecționarii care caută contextul social și estetic din spatele discografiei lor, oferind o poveste autentică despre cum sunetul britanic a cucerit lumea.
Descriere
In the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain. Independent labels are springing up to release their music. But this isn't the story of punk. Forget punk. Punk was a flash in the pan compared to this. This is the story of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, a musical movement that changed the world.
From this movement - given the unwieldy acronym NWOBHM - sprang streams that would flow through metal's subsequent development. Without NWOBHM there is no thrash metal, no death metal, no black metal. Without the rise of Iron Maiden, NWOBHM's standard bearers, leading the charge to South America and to South Asia, metal's global spread is slower. Without the NWOBHM bands - who included Def Leppard, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Diamond Head and many others - the international uniform of heavy metal - the 'battle jacket' of a denim jacket with sleeves ripped off, and covered with patches (usually sewn on by the wearer's mum), worn over a leather biker jacket - does not exist: 'Denim and leather brought us all together,' as Saxon put it.
No book has ever gathered together all the principals of British heavy rock's most fertile period: Jimmy Page, Rick Allen, Michael Schenker, Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, Ritchie Blackmore, Rick Savage, Phil Collen, David Coverdale, Cronos, Biff Byford, Joe Elliott, Rob Halford, Ian Gillan, Phil Mogg, Robert Plant, Tony Wilson, Lars Ulrich, Pete Waterman to name a few.
In Denim and Leather, these stars tell their own stories - their brilliant, funny tales of hubris and disaster, of ambition and success - and chart how, over a handful of years from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, a group of unlikely looking blokes from the provinces wearing spandex trousers changed heavy music forever.
This is the definitive story about the greatest days of British heavy rock.
Recenzii
There is a real tenderness to Michael Hann's perception of music, a perception that has balance of forthright investigation and humane intrigue, neither meek nor ruthless as interviewer and writer, he serves the outsider with empathy and grounded wonder. Hann's perspective on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal leads Denim and Leather to be what I want as a music fan: a revelation of the overlooked and a celebration of the underdog. Which is what the genre was all about in the first place! Magic
The influence of British metal extends far beyond the amount of newsprint miles expended on it. Denim and Leather acts both as the oral history its fans deserve and a deeply evocative primer for those of us who weren't paying attention at the time.
With Denim and Leather, Michael Hann has masterfully interwoven dozens of disparate narratives to create a deeply evocative oral history of a hugely misunderstood chapter in British music history.
Denim and Leather voyages beyond music history and into the realm of sociology to honour the importance of the misunderstood movement whose history it exists to tell - in the process creating a deeply evocative primer for both fans and the merely curious
Finally, a book about one of the most overlooked and unfairly derided movements in music history. There is so much in here, metal music that shaped everything that came afterwards, joy, pathos, humour and darkness. I learned so much; now excuse me while I go brush up on Witchfynde
Denim and Leather is enthralling and entertaining for both hardcore fans and novice listeners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. I previously did not know much beyond the biggest bands in the genre, but I found this book captivating and consistently amusing. Michael Hann talks to all the major players in the NWOBHM, who are often contradictory, sometimes delusional, and usually very charming. The book opened my eyes and ears to a lot of music I didn't previously know, and helped me contextualize exactly what was so unique about this music and the scene around it
Part of the book's charm is Hann's rendering of local accents, even as his interviewees hold forth on their lurid flirtations with the dark side... [an] entertaining and poignant oral history
A number of lively vignettes... fascinating and entertaining