Nick Drake: Dreaming England (Reverb) - Softcover

Wiseman-Trowse, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780231768 ISBN 13: 9781780231761

Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of twenty six, Nick Drake has not only gained a huge international audience, which eluded him during his lifetime, but has also come to represent the epitome of English romanticism. Drakes small but much-loved body of work has evoked comparisons with Blake, Keats, Vaughan Williams and Delius, placing him within a long line of English mystical romanticism. Yet upon closer inspection Drakes work betrays a myriad of international, cosmopolitan influences and approaches that seem to confound his status as archetypal English troubadour.
Nathan Wiseman-Trowse unravels the myths surrounding Nick Drakes music to show how audiences have come to think of his work as representing the very idea of Englishness itself. The music itself provides clues, hinting at a specific English landscape that Drake would have wandered through during his lifetime. Yet Drakes interest in blues, jazz, and eastern mysticism hint at a broader conception of English national identity in the late 1960s, far removed from mere parochial nostalgia. Similarly, the framing of Drakes music after his death has done much to situate him as a particular kind of English artist, integrating American counterculture, the English class system and a nostalgic re-imagining of the hippy era for contemporary audiences.
Nick Drake: Dreaming England explores how ideas of Englishness have come to be so intimately associated with the cult singer songwriter. Essential reading for any fan of Nick Drake, the book will also appeal to those interested in folk music or English national identity.

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 Nathan Wiseman-Trowse is a senior lecturer in popular culture at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the author of Performing Class in British Popular Music.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1780231768
• ISBN 13: 9781780231761
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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