Rock City Guide Exclusivité Fnac

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GIFTED: A COMPILATION OF 14 BANDS THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF MUSIC WRITTEN BY JD BEAUVALLET WITH + THAN 100 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED PELTIER FROM RENNES TO MANCHESTER, FROM SEATTLE TO KINGSTON, VIA BERLIN, REYKJAVIK... 29 CITIES THAT HAVE SHAPED THE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC. These 29 cities share a militant pride and an unshakeable faith in their own importance and influence: they are the world capital of rock and its descendants. Neighboring cities, sometimes only a few kilometers apart, thus offer eternal hatreds and endless mockery. Parochialism meets the arrogance of sects. And the worst thing about this contest of beats, in this deafening concert of boasting, is that these cities and their scenes have often been right. Their reign sometimes lasted only a weekend or, on the contrary, lasted for decades. But the twenty-nine cities this book tells the story of have irreparably changed the fate of popular music. Some even invented it from scraps of distorted cultures and traditions, from soul to techno, from reggae to house, from psychedelia to hip-hop... To tell the story of these cities, these coincidences, these characters and these musics that came from nowhere, we sometimes chose to focus on a detail, a micro-scene, a few pixels of the immense picture. Most of the time, we simply recounted the story, its enormity, its mythology exaggerated by its participants. Rock and its children and grandchildren, today so disciplined in a business that only tolerates rebels and wild ones with caution, were nevertheless born of unworthy, marginal, outlaw parents. With the advent in the 1950s of the Adolescent, youth around the world invented, in an endless frenzy, the soundtrack to its liberated existence.