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Thorn eloquently strikes upon some profound truths about human communication as she tests the powers and limits of the human voice.
In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage-fright. Part memoir, part wide-ranging exploration of the art, mechanics and spellbinding power of singing, NAKED AT THE ALBERT HALL takes in Dusty Springfield, Dennis Potter and George Eliot; Auto-tune, the microphone and stage presence; The Streets and The X Factor. Including interviews with fellow artists such as Alison Moyet, Romy Madley-Croft and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, and portraits of singers in fiction as well as Tracey's real-life experiences, it offers a unique, witty and sharply observed insider's perspective on the exhilarating joy and occasional heartache of singing. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Where Thorn excels, is in her personal mini-monographs that are often encased within single paragraphs, as here, about experience and influence:
A lot of the book is about popular, western ways of singing, mainly in a crowd-fronting way, but also about the need for singing, to begin with.
I loved to read about Dusty Springfield, not only because Thorn found her through my favourite song of Springfield (perhaps bar "Magic Garden"):
Some of the interviews in this book are truly interesting. I love Kristin Hersh's comment here:
Some of Thorn's personal memories are also interesting, funny, and illuminating, slight as they may at first mean:
All in all, a funny, probably helpful book to the everyday singer, but I couldn't help but feel that I wish that more stones had been turned while researching this book; it is very western and poppy, but if that's what I'd had in mind to begin with, it'd have been better. ( )