谈论格林威治村：美国波西米亚音乐之都的兴衰 Talkin Greenwich Village：The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital

基本信息

Format:Hardback 400 pages

Publisher:Hachette Books

Imprint:Da Capo Press Inc

ISBN:9780306827631

Published:17 Oct 2024

Dimensions:229 x 152 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这部史书记录了格林威治村革命性的音乐场景，它培养了美国历史上具代表性的音乐家，并一路捍卫着自己的身份。

尽管格林威治村在纽约市中心的占地面积不到一平方英里，但很少有如此简练的区域支持和培育如此多开创性的艺术家和音乐流派。几十年来，比莉·霍利戴 (Billie Holiday)、The Weavers、桑尼·罗林斯 (Sonny Rollins)、鲍勃·迪伦 (Bob Dylan)、戴夫·范·朗克 (Dave Van Ronk)、赫比·汉考克 (Herbie Hancock)、蓝调计划 (Blues Project) 和苏珊娜·维加 (Suzanne Vega) 等少数人意识到格林威治村是外来者和那些想要创造或重塑自我的人的避难所。这些音乐家以及其他许多人利用格林威治村烟雾缭绕的咖啡馆和俱乐部记录了动荡的六十年代，改写了爵士乐的历史，并将摇滚乐带入了以前从未涉足过的折衷之地。

《谈论格林威治村》以对幸存参与者的新采访、之前未曾见过和听过的档案以及作者戴维·布朗多年来对这一场景的沉浸为基础，为这个传奇故事赋予了它应有的史诗般、全景式的视野。它带领读者从华盛顿广场公园的五十年代喷泉活动到 Gaslight 和 Village Vanguard 等地标场所，一路上还停留在七十年代狂欢的年代（《国家讽刺》的 Lemmings），以及迪伦的重大到来和多次回归。这本书以令人大开眼界的方式记录了与迪伦和他的同龄人一起演唱的被忽视的有色人种，揭示了联邦政府和市政府如何始终关注社区和像范·朗克这样的艺术家，发掘了华盛顿广场公园臭名昭著的“垮掉的一代”的新方面，并讲述了 80 年代催生新社区的沙拉三明治餐厅和深受喜爱的姐妹乐队 Roches 从未讲述的故事，她们为当今许多女性歌手兼作曲家奠定了基础。

《Talkin' Greenwich Village》还记录了种族紧张局势、持续的压制和纽约的变化以及渗透到社区的音乐，不仅仅是一部生动的音乐史。它还讲述了美国波西米亚文化的鼎盛时期和衰落的故事，背景音乐是​​音乐史上一些经久不衰的歌词、民歌和爵士乐。

The definitive history of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, which fostered some of the most iconic musicians in American history--and fought for its identity every step of the way.

Although Greenwich Village takes up less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area supported and nurtured so many groundbreaking artists and genres. Over the course of decades, Billie Holiday, the Weavers, Sonny Rollins, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Herbie Hancock, the Blues Project, and Suzanne Vega are just a few who realized the Village was a sanctuary for outsiders and those who wanted to invent or reinvent themselves. Those musicians, and so many more, used the Village's smokey coffeehouses and clubs to chronicle the tumultuous Sixties, rewrite jazz history, and take rock & roll into eclectic places it hadn't been before.

Based on new interviews with surviving participants, previously unseen and unheard archives, and author David Browne's years immersed in the scene, Talkin' Greenwich Village lends the saga the epic, panoramic scope it has long deserved. It takes readers from the Fifties fountain sessions in Washington Square Park and into landmark venues like the Gaslight and the Village Vanguard, with stops along the way into the scene's carousing Seventies years (National Lampoon's Lemmings), and Dylan's momentous arrival and numerous returns. In eye-opening fashion, the book chronicles the overlooked people of color who sang alongside Dylan and his peers, reveals how the federal and city government consistently kept its eye on the community and artists like Van Ronk, unearths new aspects of the infamous "beatnik riot" in Washington Square Park, and tells the never-told stories of the falafel restaurant that begat a new community in the Eighties scene and the beloved sister band the Roches, who laid the groundwork for so many of today's female singer-songwriters.

In also chronicling the racial tensions, ongoing crackdowns and changes in New York and music that infiltrated the neighborhood, Talkin' Greenwich Village is more than just vivid music history. It also tells the story of the heyday and waning of bohemian culture in America, set to some of the most enduring words, folk songs and jazz jams in music history.

作者简介

David Browne 曾是《娱乐周刊》的音乐评论员，在那里工作了 15 年多。他曾是《纽约每日新闻》的记者和专栏作家，还为《纽约时报》、《纽约杂志》、《滚石》、《MOJO》、《Spin》和其他出版物撰稿。

David Browne is the former music critic for Entertainment Weekly, where he worked for over 15 years. A former reporter and columnist for the New York Daily News, he has also contributed to The New York Times, New York magazine, Rolling Stone, MOJO, Spin and other publications.