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Shop Around de Bruce Jenkins

Shop Around

Autor Bruce Jenkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2016

Descoperim în Shop Around o incursiune senzorială în universul sonor al genurilor soul și R&B, unde paginile par să vibreze sub greutatea amintirilor auditive. Bruce Jenkins nu se limitează la o analiză clinică, ci ne invită să observăm cum se formează identitatea muzicală la intersecția dintre moștenirea genetică — fiind fiul unui muzician și al unei vocaliste — și descoperirea personală a ritmului. Remarcăm o structură narativă care îmbină rigoarea academică cu pasiunea viscerală, transformând lectura într-o experiență cvasi-muzicală. Pe raftul de artă, alături de Growing Up with the Hits!, acest volum se distinge prin profunzimea analizei și prin modul în care autorul reușește să traducă emoția sunetului în text literar de înaltă ținută. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne sau On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters, Jenkins explora riguros estetica vizuală și avangarda cinematografică, în Shop Around el aplică aceeași precizie critică asupra propriului trecut și asupra peisajului sonor american. Este o tranziție fascinantă de la analiza imaginii la cea a sunetului, păstrând însă aceeași exigență documentară care i-a consacrat cariera la School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780986189814
ISBN-10: 0986189812
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 126 x 177 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Wellstone Books

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile emoționale ale muzicii soul. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care pasiunea pentru muzică se transmite și se transformă între generații. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care apreciază memoriile scrise cu o ureche fină pentru ritm și o voce critică avizată, oferind un context cultural bogat dincolo de simplele date biografice.

Despre autor

Bruce Jenkins este profesor de film, video și media noi la School of the Art Institute of Chicago, fiind o figură centrală în analiza artelor vizuale contemporane. Expertiza sa vastă este demonstrată de editarea scrierilor lui Hollis Frampton și de munca sa monumentală asupra catalogului raisonné al filmelor lui Andy Warhol. În Shop Around, Jenkins își folosește abilitățile de observator fin al culturii pentru a explora o sferă mai intimă: influența muzicii R&B și soul asupra propriei formări, integrând expertiza sa academică într-o narațiune personală despre sunet și identitate.

Descriere scurtă

Bruce Jenkins was twelve years old, living in Malibu with his parents, when he heard the original “Shop Around” single, by “The Miracles featuring Bill ‘Smokey’ Robinson,” the first Billboard No. 1 R&B single for Motown’s Tamla label. Released nationally in October 1960, the single would ultimately make it into the Grammy Hall of Fame, but for young Bruce, the first times he heard the song were a revelation. Jenkins grew up surrounded by music. His father, Gordon Jenkins, was a composer and arranger who worked with artists from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash, but was best known for his close collaboration with Frank Sinatra. His mother, Beverly, was a singer.

For Bruce, “Shop Around” ushered him into a new world of loving Motown. In Shop Around, he brings to life the first thrill of having the music claim him, provides the back story of the recording (and rerecording) of the hit single, shares sketches from his life with his father and mother, and traces how his love of music has grown and evolved over the years and how he still loves driving around San Francisco with Motown cranked up on his car stereo.

Recenzii

"I loved it. Bruce Jenkins manages to accomplish the always dangerous task of describing music with words as well as anyone I’ve read. His knowledge is formidable and his passion is infectious. He can sure write sports, but Bruce missed his calling. He should have been a music critic. Man, does he get it."
—Huey Lewis

"Bruce Jenkins’ Shop Around is a must read for every child of the '60’s who ever listened to AM radio. The sounds of Motown and Stax that moved Bruce moved me as well. As a veteran Bay Area bandleader, I still get folks on the dance floor with the wicked grooves of Steve, Marvin and Otis. It took Bruce’s book to remind me why I love that music so much to this day."
—Dick Bright, San Francisco bandleader and musician.

"An absolutely essential read. An awesome story about a priceless time in music history."
—Emilio Castillo, bandleader, Tower of Power

"A warm and witty memoir about how music binds us all.
—Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic

"I'd read whatever Bruce Jenkins has to write on any subject, but Shop Around is a perfect marriage: Bruce's smooth, rhythmic prose describing his lifelong love of music. The book itself is a song."
—Tim Keown, ESPN the Magazine

"I always knew Bruce Jenkins was a cool dude, but I didn’t know how cool he was until I heard him talking music. You can’t be that cool unless you’ve got some deep roots."
—Dusty Baker, author, Kiss the Sky

"What do you get when you combine art (Bruce Jenkins' smoooth writing) with heart (his passion for '60s soul music)? Shop Around. It flows like a great Smokey Robinson song and when you come to the end, you'll want to cue it up all over again."
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle

"I fell madly in love with Motown and the sounds of Memphis when I was a junior in high school, A whole new world opened wide. And I knew Bruce Jenkins then; we were classmates at Santa Monica High. After all these years, he’s still spinning wonderful yarns on whatever topic moves him, still passionate, entertaining and illuminating. Shop Around took me on an emotional ride that brought a few tears along the way."
—Lyle Spencer, former sports columnist, Los Angeles Herald Examiner and Riverside Press-Enterprise

"Jenkins’ memoir riffs knowingly on Louis Armstrong, Smokey Robinson, Otis Redding, Harry Nilsson, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Tower of Power and the masterly studio musicians at Motown and Memphis’ Stax label — among them guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist James Jamerson — who went uncredited for years. The book takes its title from the 1960 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles hit that turned Jenkins’ head around when he was 12. He’d dug the music of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson, but there was something about Robinson’s voice and style that was so fresh it floored him."
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle

Notă biografică

A San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter since 1973, and a sports columnist since 1989, Bruce Jenkins has covered twenty-seven World Series and nineteen Wimbledons. In 1999 he was named one of the nation’s top ten columnists in the Associated Press Sports Editors awards and has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His previous books include Goodbye: In Search of Gordon Jenkins, about his father, A Good Man: The Pete Newell Story, and North Shore Chronicles: Big-Wave Surfing in Hawaii. He lives in Montara, CA, with his wife and daughter.