Name: Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles
Brand: Alex Harvey

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9781789146639

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Discs

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Paperback

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-11

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Yale

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1 / Extended format: No / Paperback / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Alex Harvey

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Music

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Reaktion Books

Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits's career, when he lived, wrote and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles; from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time (1973), to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones (1983). Starting his song-writing career in the '70s, Waits absorbed LA's wealth of cultural influences. Combining the spoken idioms of writers like Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms, he explored the city's literary and film noir traditions to create hallucinatory dreamscapes.<br>Waits mined a rich seam of the city's low-life locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark imagination. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing and emblematic; a vision of LA as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations.

Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles

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