Radio On: A Listener's Diary
by Sarah Vowell
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Author: Sarah VowellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-12-15
ISBN: 0312183011
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Book Review: rock and roll ethos
Summary: 5 Stars
What makes Sarah Vowell special is a belief in music. Not just alternative, or punk, or whatever label you want to slap on her, but an all out mad fantasy that you can hear something and it will make you different. A song that can "cut you in half," as she says. When I hear the title of radio on, I hear "Roadrunner," and jonathan richman shouting triumphantly "c'mon modern lovers..." and then they *all* get into the chant. It's all night stop'n'shops and hedonism and searching, and above all it's chaos and confusion. She knows that she'll never find the perfect station, but it's the thirst for meaning in static filled broadband melee that drives the book, and captures the reader. Her detractors should remember that in Rock And Roll, it's not whether you're right or wrong, but how you feel.
Summary of Radio On: A Listener's Diary
There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened?closely, critically, creatively?for an entire year.
As a series of impressions and reflections regarding contemporary American culture, and as an extended meditation on both our media and our society, this keenly focused book is as insightful as it is refreshing.
Throughout Radio On, "Vowell's touch is about as delicate as Teddy Kennedy's after a pitcher of martinis" (Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times).
As a series of impressions and reflections regarding contemporary American culture, and as an extended meditation on both our media and our society, this keenly focused book is as insightful as it is refreshing.
Throughout Radio On, "Vowell's touch is about as delicate as Teddy Kennedy's after a pitcher of martinis" (Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times).
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