David Hajdu, Heroes and Villians, at Book Culture
Hajdu reads from his latest book, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (FREE)
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Nov 19, 2009 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM |
| Where | Book Culture, 536 W. 112th St., NY NY |
| Contact Name | info@bookculture.com |
| Contact Phone | 212-865-1588 |
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The heart of Heroes and Villains is an extraordinary new
piece of cultural rediscovery, original to this book. It tells the
untold story of one of the most important – and, ultimately, one of the
most tragic – figures in American popular music, Billy Eckstine.
Through exhaustive new research, Hajdu shows how this great, forgotten
singer, once more popular than Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby,
transformed American music by combining sex appeal, sophistication, and
black machismo – in the era of segregation. The cost, for Eckstine, was
his career – and nearly his life. Other essays in this expansive book deal with topical and surprising
subjects: Beyoncé, Bobby Darin, Kanye West, Marjane Satrapi, Woody
Guthrie, Will Eisner, the White Stripes, Elmer Fudd, Elvis Costello,
Harry Partch, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, and more.
