The Last Holiday (eBook)

A Memoir

Gil Scott-Heron (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
336 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-0-85786-302-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream. And Stevie Wonder had a dream. This is a book about dreams.''In the autumn of 1980, Stevie Wonder invited Gil Scott-Heron to join him on a forty-one-city tour across America, ending in Washing­ton in January 1981, to gather popular support for the creation of a holiday in honour of the great civil-rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. Scott-Heron uses this history-making tour as the backbone of his fascinating memoir. Raised by his grandmother in Jackson, Tennessee, Scott-Heron''s journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential musicians and songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. Politically savvy and savagely satirical, socially conscious and tender-hearted, Gil Scott-Heron has been called the godfather of rap, and his unexpected death in May 2011 marked the loss of one of the world''s most vocal and articulate artists. Chuck D of Public Enemy said of Scott-Heron, ''we do what we do and who we do because of you'' and Eminem added, ''Scott-Heron influenced all of hip-hop''. And as Sarah Silverman said, "he mirrored ugliness with beauty, audacity, and valour''.A compelling testament to Gil Scott-Heron''s career and achievements, The Last Holiday is full of Scott-Heron''s keen insights into the music industry, the civil rights movement, modern America, governmental hypocrisy and our wider place in the world.

Rezensionen

Engaging and immensely human . . . Much like his poetry, Scott-Heron's style is spare and effective, offering up jagged observations on fame, friendship and political and racial injustice.

A marvellous documentary of black America and life lived in the raw

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Autobiography • B Movie • Bob Dylan • Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One • Bob Marley • civil-rights movement • early Seventies • Fiction • Gil Scott-Heron • heartfelt memoir • Home Is Where the Hatred Is • influential songwriters • Johan­nesburg • Lady Day and John Coltrane • late Sixties • Memoir • modern america • modern New York city • musician • Music Industry • Novels • Now and Then: The Poems of Gil Scott- Heron • Poetry • posthumous • Singer-Songwriter • Small Talk • social and political upheaval • Songs • Stevie Wonder • The Nigger Factory • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised • The Vulture • Winter in America
• ISBN-10: 0-85786-302-9 / 0857863029
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85786-302-7 / 9780857863027