A New Day Yesterday by Mike Barnes

A New Day Yesterday by Mike Barnes

Progressive rock - a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies - originated and flowered most spectacularly in the UK. Made by young musicians for a young audience, prog music looked towards new horizons by synthesising rock, jazz, folk, classical and other styles. While prog has always divided critical opinion, in its heyday it had a large and devoted fanbase, and the era's biggest acts - from Pink Floyd to Genesis - went on to enjoy long-lasting international and commercial success. Although the scene fragmented in the late Seventies, new generations of young listeners continue to discover the unique sounds of prog today. Examining the myths and misconceptions surrounding the genre, music journalist Mike Barnes (MOJO, The Wire, Prog, and author of the acclaimed biography Captain Beefheart) paints a vivid, colourful picture of the Seventies based on his own interviews with the musicians, music business insiders, journalists and DJs, and the personal testimonies of fans of that extraordinary decade. Offering something new for even the keenest of prog enthusiasts, A New Day Yesterday is an entertaining and in-depth study of both the music itself and the cultural conditions and attitudes that fed into, and were affected by, this remarkable musical phenomenon.

Mike Barnes is the author of Calm Jazz Sea, which was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Aquarium, which won the Danuta Gleed Award for outstanding debut book of tales by a Canadian in 1999, The Syllabus, a novel, and Contrary Angel, a short story collection. His works have appeared in Best Canadian Stories twice, The Journey Prize Anthology three times, and he has won the National Magazine Awards Silver Medal for Fiction twice. He is based in Toronto.

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Titel	A New Day Yesterday
Autor	Mike Barnes
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Omnibus Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-02-27
Seitenanzahl	608
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