Kürzlich ist eine Biographie über Arthur Russell erschienen, „Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992“ von Tim Lawrence. In den USA ist das Buch schon eine Weile auf dem Markt, Amazon D listet es erst seit ca. einem Monat.
Summary[…]Based on interviews with more than seventy of his collaborators, family members, and friends, „Hold On to Your Dreams“ provides vital new information about this singular, eccentric musician and his role in the boundary-breaking downtown music scene. Tim Lawrence traces Russell’s odyssey from his hometown of Oskaloosa, Iowa, to countercultural San Francisco, and eventually to New York, where he lived from 1973 until his death from AIDS-related complications in 1992.
Hier ein paar Reviews, die Wire meint z.B.:
Ken Hollings, The Wire[A] sensitive and thorough biography. […] In a sense, Arthur Russell was so much a part of his times that he tended to disappear into them, blending in with so many different scenes that the camouflage seemed at times to have taken over. Lawrence notes, for example, how many previous accounts of the New York downtown scene fail to notice him at all. With Hold On to Your Dreams, the outline of an outstanding and prescient artist can now be more clearly made out.
Mit Dank an tugboat captain für den Hinweis auf das Buch! Hat es schon jemand gelesen?
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