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Chargement... Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (édition 2017)par David Yaffe (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not a bad biography, but biographies really aren’t my thing. I totally love her first few albums, and like some of her later stuff. Certainly learned a lot about JM’s life, but I’m not sure it makes me like her music any more than I did in the first place. She’s had a tough life and as she went on she seemed to become a lot less likable, although that’s understandable. I’m not sure what point there was into prying into her life, although it was interesting to know who “Free Man in Paris” was written about... ( ) I read the book: Joni Mitchell - In Her Own Words a few years ago. It consisted of interviews between Joni and a friend which took place over her long career. It was Joni talking about her music, her writing and her painting. It was a very good book. This book was very different, though just as good. It's a more standard biography, telling us about Joni's life, though centering her relationships and events around the different albums she's made over her life. It gives much much more background about other people and events than the "In Her Own Words" book does. In order to get a well rounded picture of Joni's life, i recommend reading both books. You really must be a Joni Mitchell fan if you start, and finish, this book. Well written, but dull in places because of the sheer volume of information. A Poet, able to play and sing her own songs, Joni has long been my favorite singer of the folk era. She transcended this era by dabbling in jazz and cutting a cd with Mingus. Some fans liked her earthy poems rather that her jazz compilations. Overall, she is definitely a supremely talented woman to be very much admired.
Joni Mitchell’s gift was so enormous that it remade the social space around her. As David Yaffe’s new biography... suggests, it is no small burden to possess something as valuable as Mitchell’s talent.... At times, his book feels as if its main objective were for him to never again be rebuffed by the “strong, resilient, defiant” woman he admires, who looked “more beautiful than she did in the ads for Yves St. Laurent that were in all the magazines.” Add Mitchell’s biographer to the list of men she played like a paddleball.
Reckless Daughter tells the story of Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect that can still be felt today on American music and the industry.
"Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country. A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. She was nothing more than "a painter derailed by circumstances," she would explain. And yet, she went on to become a talented self-taught musician and a brilliant bandleader, releasing album after album, each distinctly experimental, challenging, and revealing. Her lyrics captivated listeners with their perceptive language and naked emotion, born out of Mitchell's life, loves, complaints, and prophecies. As an artist whose work deftly balances narrative and musical complexity, she has been admired by such legendary lyricists as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and beloved by such groundbreaking jazz musicians as Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock. Her hits--from "Big Yellow Taxi" to "Both Sides, Now" to "A Case of You"--endure as timeless favorites, and her influence on the generations of singer-songwriters who would follow her, from her devoted fan Prince to Björk, is undeniable. In this intimate biography, drawing on dozens of unprecedented in-person interviews with Mitchell, her childhood friends, and a cast of famous characters, Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs--from Mitchell's youth in Canada, her bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, through the love affairs that inspired masterpieces, and up to the present--and shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends. Reckless Daughter is the story of an artist and an era that have left an indelible mark on American music."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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