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UNINA9910808030503321 |
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Autore |
Wiseman-Trowse Nathan |
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Titolo |
Nick Drake : dreaming England / / Nathan Wiseman-Trowse |
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London, UK : , : Reaktion Books, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (174 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Male musicians - England |
Popular music - England - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Nick Drake Dreaming England; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Dreaming England; 2. Listening to the Land; 3. The Country and the City; 4. Melancholia and Loss; 5. Drake's Legacy; Chronology; References; Select Bibliography; Discography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Since his death in 1974 at the age of twenty-six, singer-songwriter Nick Drake has gained a huge international audience and come to be thought of as the epitome of English romanticism. But while his small body of work has evoked poetic comparisons with Blake and Keats, closer inspection of Drake's music reveals many global and cosmopolitan influences that confound his status as an archetypal English troubadour. In this book, Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Drake and his work and explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be intimately associated with the cult musician |
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