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Waging Heavy Peace de Neil Young

Waging Heavy Peace

Autor Neil Young
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2013

Găsim în Waging Heavy Peace o experiență tactilă și vizuală care onorează moștenirea unui artist de neclintit. Ediția paperback de la Penguin Books se simte substanțială în mână, cele peste 500 de pagini fiind tipărite pe o hârtie care invită la o lectură așezată, potrivită cu tonul reflexiv al autorului. Calitatea reproducerilor și formatul prietenos transformă parcurgerea acestor memorii într-o incursiune senzorială prin deceniile de istorie rock pe care Neil Young le-a modelat.

Suntem de părere că această lucrare nu este o biografie convențională, ci un flux al conștiinței care sare peste barierele cronologice pentru a ne oferi esența creativității. Ca și Shakey, volumul pune în valoare viața enigmatică a muzicianului, dar cu un accent pe vocea proprie a lui Young, care alege să vorbească direct cititorului, fără intermediari. Descoperim aici o onestitate dezarmantă: autorul scrie cu aceeași pasiune despre chitare, sisteme audio și mașini de colecție, precum o face despre luptele personale cu sănătatea sau dinamica complexă din Crosby, Stills & Nash.

În contextul operei sale, dacă Special Deluxe se concentra pe pasiunea sa pentru automobile ca lentilă biografică, Waging Heavy Peace rămâne pilonul central care ancorează întreaga sa filozofie de viață. Este o narațiune scrisă la prezentul continuu, unde amintirile din Ontario zăpezit se împletesc cu efervescența din Los Angeles-ul anului 1966. Ritmul este unul cald, aproape confesional, transformând cititorul într-un martor privilegiat al unei cariere ce a definit genuri, de la folk la grunge.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241962169
ISBN-10: 0241962161
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este o invitație în mintea unuia dintre cei mai influenți muzicieni ai secolului XX. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a procesului creativ, dincolo de mitul celebrității. Este o recomandare esențială pentru cei care apreciază integritatea artistică și vor să descopere cum se transformă experiențele personale dureroase în muzică nemuritoare. Veți găsi aici nu doar istoria rock-ului, ci o lecție despre supraviețuire și pasiune neîntreruptă.

Despre autor

Neil Young este o figură emblematică a culturii rock, a cărui carieră se întinde pe mai bine de patru decenii și include treizeci și patru de albume de studio. Recunoscut pentru versatilitatea sa, a navigat cu succes între rock and roll, folk, country și blues, păstrându-și mereu integritatea artistică. De la debutul cu Buffalo Springfield până la succesul global ca artist solo și colaborările legendare cu Crazy Horse, Young a rămas un inovator constant. Inclus de două ori în Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, el este considerat o punte fundamentală între generațiile clasice ale rock-ului și mișcările alternative moderne.

Notă biografică

Neil Young was born in Toronto in 1945, and later went to live with his mother in Winnipeg after his parents split up. He moved to California in 1966 where he co-founded Buffalo Springfield before joining the hugely successful Crosby, Stills & Nash, and then embarking on a stellar solo career. He has been inducted not once but twice into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which describes him as 'one of rock 'n' roll's greatest songwriters and performers'.

Young is an outspoken advocate of environmental issues and the welfare of small farmers - he co-founded Farm Aid in 1986. He is also active in educatonal projects for disabled children, and co-founded The Bridge School which assists children with physical impairments and communication needs.

Descriere scurtă

Waging Heavy Peace is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young

Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock and pop culture in the last four decades, inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Reflective, insightful and disarmingly honest, Waging Heavy Peace is his long-awaited memoir. From his youth in Canada to his crazy journey out to California, through Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash, to his massively successful solo career and his re-emergence as the patron saint of grunge on to his role today as one of the last uncompromised and uncompromising survivors of rock 'n' roll - this is Neil's story told in his own words.

Young presents a kaleidoscopic view of personal life and musical creativity; it's a journey that spans the snows of Ontario to the LSD-laden boulevards of 1966 Los Angeles to the contemplative paradise of Hawaii today. Along the way he writes about the music, the victims, the girls and the drugs; about his happy family life but also about the health problems he and his children have experienced; about guitars, cars and sound systems; about Canada and California and Hawaii. Candid, witty and revealing, this book takes its place beside the classic memoirs of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards.

'Wryly funny, deeply moving, painfully honest' Guardian

'He's talking to you, not at you, unravelling himself as well, and you don't want it to end . . . You see rock and roll history from the inside out, and in the present tense' Independent

'Young appears bounteous and joyful, a genuinely happy hippy . . . Unusually for a rock memoir, this one is almost completely angst-free' Sunday Times

'Dryly hilarious . . . poignant . . . Waging Heavy Peace shows that Young is still in full possession of that stubborn, brilliant, one-of-a-kind instrument' Rolling Stone

'A real treat . . . he writes openly and movingly abut the key figures in his life...you feel you know Young better for reading it' Metro

Recenzii

“Elliptical and personal…Waging Heavy Peace eschews chronology and skips the score-settling and titillation of other rocker biographies. Still, Young shows a little leg and has some laughs…. As the book progresses, the operatics of the rock life give way to signal family events, deconstructions of his musical partnerships and musings on the natural world. It is less a chronicle than a journal of self-appraisal.” ߝDavid Carr, The New York Times

“Waging Heavy Peace finally is Neil Young on Neil Young. Inasmuch as this memoir compares to anything, it's Dylan on Dylan in Chronicles Volume 1, and at the risk of offending, one must read it as perhaps one might the Bible: Young's reality is plastic, his prose prophetic; and myth, metaphor and madness meander through his musings….It is a beautiful book, and the sturdy stock gives it a substantial heft. The prose is conversational, peppered with sentence fragments, more stream-of-consciousness than narrative. This in itself is lovely, as reading this book likely is a close as most of us will get to riding with Young in his bus, shooting the breeze, reminiscing.” ߝTed St. Godard, Winnipeg Free Press (Canada)

“Terrific: modest, honest, funny and frequently moving…Waging Heavy Peace takes the form of a diary, a life-in-the-day structure that gives Mr. Young room to maneuver, as he takes us on a wander round his memory palace… In many ways, the closest antecedent to Waging Heavy Peace may be Laurence Sterne's 1760 masterpiece, Tristram Shandy…Elegance itself.” ߝWesley Stace, Wall Street Journal

“An inspirational account of tragedy, triumph, and toy trains…If you love Neil Young you will love his autobiography….There is humor in his approach, and a preoccupation with the feeling of things; of sound, and with the world of soul and spirit…. [Young’s] is a hero’s story; a man put through trial after trial who is still fighting at the end with humor, courage, and rage to be the most powerful and genuine artist he can possibly be.” ߝSuzanne Vega, The Times (London)

“Revealing, even (at times) oddly beautiful, a stream-of-consciousness-meditation on where Young has been, where he thinks he's going and, perhaps most revealing, where he is right now.” ߝDavid Ulin, The Los Angeles Times

“[Waging Heavy Peace] isn’t a book to part with. It is as charismatically off the wall as Mr. Young’s records, and the recent concert films so imaginatively directed by Jonathan Demme. And however privately calculating it may be, it seems completely free of guile….[A] playful, capricious portrait…Waging Heavy Peace has an affirmative spirit that is one of its most poignant qualities.” ߝJanet Maslin, The New York Times

 “Full of casual asides, unpredictable tangents and open-ended questions as he looks back on his life at age 66.... Dryly hilarious...poignant....Waging Heavy Peace shows that Young is still in full possession of that stubborn, brilliant, one-of-a-kind instrument. He doesn't always go exactly where you want him to, or stay long enough once he gets there, but did anyone really expect anything else?" ߝSimon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone (four stars)

“Waging Heavy Peace is a convoluted road map to that life, drawn on cocktail napkins and pinned up with refrigerator magnets — part free-form blog, part liner notes to some future hundred-disc anthology and part loopy travelogue through one aging hippie’s expansive backyard….Young’s voice here is pure, unadulterated Neil.” ߝHoward Hampton, The New York Times Book Review

 “An honest, insightful, engaging and, dare we say, fun literary rambling. It’s a yarn told by a good buddy in a dark bar over beers and tequilas with great music on the jukebox in the background.” ߝBob Ruggiero, The Houston Chronicle

“Young writes with dry eloquence in a voice that is clearly his own…His narrative voice is like his music—direct, emotional, hopeful, sometimes funny, willfully naïve, and often, quite beautiful… At its core, Waging Heavy Peace is a story about love of the enduring variety.” ߝJeff Miers, Buffalo News

“Lively, rollicking, high-spirited, and reflective… Like one of his long, inventive jams, Young weaves crystalline lyrics and notes about friends… with reflections on the enduring beauty of nature, and the lasting power and influence of music.” — Publishers Weekly (starred)