Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis Contributor(s): Zanes, Warren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826414923 ISBN-13: 9780826414922 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: 'Dusty in Memphis', Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
Dewey: 782.421 |
LCCN: 2003011464 |
Series: 33 1/3 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.7" W x 6.4" (0.25 lbs) 131 pages |
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Publisher Description: Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the album's Memphis roots and talks to several of the key characters who were involved in its creation; many of whom were - like Zanes - outsiders drawn to the American South and mesmerized by its hold over the imagination. EXCERPTThe love that is the subject of 'Dusty in Memphis' is different from the love of her earlier songs: it is a love that is all at once diffuse, dark, unpredictable, ecstatic, and a terrible deal. It is a love too big for the lyrical (and for that matter musical) framework of Dusty's earlier pop productions, no matter the breadth of that work. Like Memphis itself, the love that is the subject of 'Dusty in Memphis' is indeed bursting with the contrary: it happens not simply when you yearn for it, as in some adolescent dream, but when you're not prepared for it; it reveals itself not simply under the star-filled skies where a moon hangs low--in fact, as the first and last tracks on side one attest, it might be at its best when the sun's just arriving at work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zanes, Warren: - Warren Zanes holds a PhD in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester. He was a member of the Del Fuegos and continues to record music. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, and he has served as a V.P. at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is currently the Executive Director of Steven Van Zandt's Rock and Roll Forever Foundation. |