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Johnny Cash: The Life

Autor Robert Hilburn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2014

Publicată într-un context în care imaginea „Omului în Negru” pendula între mit și realitate, lucrarea lui Robert Hilburn reușește să ofere cronica definitivă a unei existențe marcate de contraste violente. Remarcăm, încă de la primele pagini, o perspectivă rară, născută dintr-o proximitate jurnalistică de neegalat: Hilburn nu este doar un biograf care cercetează arhive, ci martorul ocular care a asistat la momentele de cotitură ale istoriei muzicale, fiind singurul critic prezent la istoricul concert Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.

În paginile acestui volum, experimentăm o călătorie senzorială prin studiourile prăfuite din Memphis și prin tensiunea culiselor marilor scene. Subliniem modul în care autorul echilibrează rigoarea documentară cu o empatie profundă, reușind să surprindă nu doar succesul fulminant de la Sun Records, ci și momentele de vulnerabilitate extremă din ultimii ani de viață ai artistului. Pe raftul de artă, alături de The Man Called Cash de Steve Turner, acest album biografic se distinge prin accesul privilegiat la cercul intim al lui Cash și prin analiza nuanțată a dualității sale — un om al credinței, dar bântuit de dependențe.

Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea lui Hilburn de a contextualiza geniul liric al lui Cash, depășind simpla înșiruire a hiturilor de tonomat. Așa cum a demonstrat și în monografia dedicată lui Paul Simon, autorul are talentul de a extrage esența umană din spatele iconografiei pop, livrând un text dens, de aproape 700 de pagini, care curge cu ritmul unei balade country autentice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781780220956
ISBN-10: 1780220952
Pagini: 679
Dimensiuni: 199 x 133 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor care doresc să descopere omul din spatele legendei, dincolo de clișeele industriei muzicale. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care suferința personală a fost transformată în artă universală. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii muzicii country și rock, oferind detalii inedite despre relația lui Cash cu June Carter și despre ultimele sale înregistrări care au definit o întreagă epocă.


Despre autor

Robert Hilburn este un renumit critic muzical și autor american, cunoscut pentru activitatea sa de peste 30 de ani ca editor și critic pentru Los Angeles Times. De-a lungul carierei, a avut un acces fără precedent la cele mai mari figuri ale muzicii contemporane, de la John Lennon și Michael Jackson până la Elton John și Bono. Expertiza sa în analiza fenomenului pop-rock se reflectă în biografiile sale minuțios documentate, cum este și cea dedicată lui Paul Simon. Hilburn este recunoscut pentru stilul său jurnalistic onest și pentru capacitatea de a construi portrete umane complexe, fiind unul dintre puținii critici care s-au bucurat de încrederea personală a lui Johnny Cash.


Descriere

'Johnny Cash ... Every man could relate to him, no man could be him, and only one man could get inside his head - Robert Hilburn' BONO

People don't just listen to Johnny Cash: they believe in him. But no one has told the Man in Black's full story, until now.

In Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical icon, whose colourful career stretched from his days at Sun Records with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to his remarkable, brave and deeply moving 'Hurt' video, aged sixty-nine. As music critic for the Los Angeles Times, Hilburn knew Cash well throughout his life: he was the only music journalist at the legendary Folsom Prison concert in 1968, and he interviewed Cash and his wife June Carter for the final time just months before their deaths in 2003. Hilburn's rich reporting shows the remarkable highs and deep lows that followed and haunted Cash in equal measure. A man of great faith and humbling addiction, Cash aimed for more than another hit for the jukebox; he wanted his music to lift people's spirits.

Drawing upon his personal experience with Cash and a trove of never-before-seen material from the singer's inner circle, Hilburn creates an utterly compelling, deeply human portrait of one of the most iconic figures in modern popular culture - not only a towering figure in country music, but also a seminal influence in rock, whose personal life was far more troubled, and whose musical and lyrical artistry much more profound, than even his most devoted fans ever realised.


Recenzii

Johnny Cash was a man both extraordinary and ordinary. Every man could relate to him, no man could be him, and only one man could get inside his head: Robert Hilburn
Robert Hilburn displays a deeply felt affinity with his subject, illuminating Johnny Cash as the moral compass of country music
A great story requires great storytelling, and that's exactly what it receives here. Ultimately, Robert Hilburn's biography uncannily resembles its subject: massive and stolid, but with a dangerous glint in its eye
Johnny Cash and Robert Hilburn are two of the true blessings of my life. Both the best at what they do and each a gifted artist. It's a killer combination
Mr Hilburn got as close to the Cash inner circle as any journalist could. He was the only reporter present at the historic Folsom Prison show in 1968, and he interviewed Cash over the years up to his final days. The result is the most authoritative and revealing portrait to date of the most chronicled figure in country-music history ... [a] finely wrought biography
Hilburn's biography has the sort of immense scope and tremendous insight that comes from years of interviewing such a truthful, troubling subject
A warts-and-all biography follows Johnny Cash, a rebel and outsider, from one drama to the next. It's a must-read
Rock biographies can feel like they are ten-a-penny so it is a refreshing change to read a meaty no-holds barred, non-sycophantic record of legendary Man in Black Johnny Cash ... The wealth of detail on every page, in ever incident of Cash's life (1932-2002) is both impressive and a joy to read. Unlike so many biographies that are reported incidents jigsawed together, this is almost an eyewitness account with not always favourable opinions, perfecting its colour and gravitas
How do you write an interesting biography of such a beloved figure? First, hire Robert Hilburn. He is a prodigious researcher, but keeps a steady hand on the tiller, and never allows his research to swamp his narrative. He knows his music and music history, but unlike far too many music critics, he avoids the temptation to show off
Hilburn has pulled off the rare feat of making the dispassionate truth more extraordinary than the myth
With straightforward prose, and through years of meticulous research, Robert Hilburn unravels the sometimes dark and magical life of one of music's greatest legends. Oftentimes this is a chronicle of pain, whether Hilburn is detailing Cash's early loss of his beloved brother, or the anguish he talked to Rick Rubin about feeling upon the death of wife June, but Hilburn gives much insight into what drove Cash's work. This is a harrowing story of addiction, musical genius, and enduring faith that goes far deeper than any film biopic ever will. In the end, Hilburn has achieved what is most certainly the definitive Johnny Cash biography
Robert Hilburn has written a magnificent biography
Hilburn displays a quite remarkable empathy with his subject and his writing style is highly readable and totally gripping. The book has just been published in the UK and is surely a must for any serious country music buff
A moving, respectful and sympathetic biography
There is madness aplenty in this excellent life of the turbulent Johnny Cash
Superb

Notă biografică

Robert Hilburn was the chief music critic and pop music editor for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades. The author of the bestselling memoir Cornflakes with John Lennon, Hilburn has reported extensively on most of pop music's legends, including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Johnny Cash.