Ben Watson
Autore di Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
Sull'Autore
Ben Watson is a writer, editor, food and farm activist, and the author of several books, including Acts of God: The Old Farmer's Almanac Unpredictable Guide to Weather and Natural Disasters and Taylor's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables. He is also coauthor of Passport to Gardening and The Slow Food mostra altro Guide to New York City. Watson lives in New Hampshire. mostra meno
Opere di Ben Watson
Academy Zappa: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology (2005) 16 copie
The Chelsea Green Reader: Selections from 30 Years of Independent Publishing, 1984-2014 (2014) 10 copie
Electronic Ignition: Installation, Performance Tuning, Modification (Powerpro Series) (1994) 5 copie
Opere correlate
The Big Book of Cidermaking: Expert Techniques for Fermenting and Flavoring Your Favorite Hard Cider (2020) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 23 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1956
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- United Kingdom
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Bull Tongue (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 27
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 434
- Popolarità
- #56,344
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 44
- Lingue
- 1
The early sections about Bailey's early life are good, but once the book gets into the rise and development of free improvisation, not so much. Watson covers much of Bailey's later career only by including reviews of performances.
By not seeking out equally deep corroborating and contrasting interviews with Bailey's peers, Watson has written a depressingly shallow book that ultimately does a disservice to very great musician and to the history of an important contemporary musical style.… (altro)