Coming April 2016: Experiencing the Rolling Stones - A Listener's Companion

 

Experiencing the Rolling Stones

A Listener’s Companion

David Malvinni’s Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener’s Companion looks at the Stones’ music from the inside out. Throughout Malvinni places individual songs and entire albums within the transformative era of the ‘60s, focusing on how The Rolling Stones integrated African-American R &B, blues, and rock and roll into a uniquely British style. Vignettes attempt to describe what it was like to hear the Stones’ music at the time of its release thread their way through as Malvinni goes beyond the usual stories around their significant songs. Tracing the distinctive sound that run through their catalogue, from chord progressions and open guitar tunings, to polyrhythmic Afro-Caribbean beats, to their timbral innovations using non-traditional instruments, he shows how the Stones retain their identity through the decades.

Experiencing The Rolling Stones also draws together a broad swath of post-war Atlantic history as it covers their origins in Swinging London, their interest in the Beat generation of artists, the powerful attraction of Morocco on their lives and music, the infamous drug busts that nearly destroyed the band, the female muses who inspired them, the disaster Altamont and its aftermath, their flight from England as tax exiles, and the recording sessions outside of England.

Highlights

•   Closely examines Keith Richards’ guitar work – from his use of an open-G tuning to 5-string guitars.

•   Chronicles the band’s long history and change in personal, such as the addition of guitarists Mick Taylor and Ron Wood.

•   Focuses on the band’s greatest records, including Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main Street, while also discussing their early work and the output in the decades since their peak.
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  April 2016 v 286 pages v 978-0-8108-8919-4v $38.00 Cloth
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About the Author:

David Malvinni, musicologist and classical guitarist, is adjunct professor of music and African American studies at Santa Barbara City College and author of The Gypsy Caravan: From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music and Film, and Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation.