Hearts of darkness: James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, and the unlikely rise of the singer-songwriter
2012; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 49; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.49-6796
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoHearts of Darkness is the story of a generation's coming of age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars. Taylor, Jackson Browne, and Cat Stevens could never have been considered your typical late-sixties songwriters - self-absorbed and self-composed, all three eschewed the traditional means of delivering their songs, instead turning its process inward. The result was a body of work that stands among the most profoundly personal art ever to translate into an international language, and a sequence of songs - from Sweet Baby James and Carolina in My Mind, to Jamaica Say You Will and These Days, to Peace Train and Wild World - that remain archetypes not only of what the critics called the singer-songwriter movement, but of the human condition itself.
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