The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling by Mitch M

The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling by Mitch Myers

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Description This freewheeling, insightful, and imaginative collection of edgy and offbeat features includes artist profiles and short fiction that chronicles the history of 20th-century music and pop culture.

Publisher Description

Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' "The Boy Who Cried Freebird" is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short fiction, straight journalism, comic interludes, memoirs, serious artist profiles, satire, and related fan-boy hokum—including the classic stories he first narrated on NPR's "All Things Considered."Focusing on iconic recordings, events, communities, and individuals, Myers riffs on Deadheads, sixties nostalgia, rock concert decorum, glockenspiels, and all manner of pop phenomena. From tales of rock-and-roll time travel to science fiction revealing Black Sabbath's power to melt space aliens, "The Boy Who Cried Freebird" is about music, culture, legend, and lore—all to be lovingly passed on to future generations.

Author Biography

Mitch Myers is a writer, historian, and psychologist based in Chicago and New York City. His unique pop commentaries have been broadcast on NPR's "All Things Considered"and published in a variety of journals, magazines, and websites. He also maintains the Shel Silverstein Archive in Chicago.

Details ISBN 0061139025 ISBN-13 9780061139024 Title The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling Author Mitch Myers Format Paperback Year 2008 Pages 321 Publisher HarperEntertainment GE_Item_ID:12613851; About Us

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