| A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage Contributor(s): Jackson, Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306810018 ISBN-13: 9780306810015 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: Now in paperback comes the candid, inspiring memoir of becoming a musician by the renowned composer and pop star. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, "A Cure for Gravity" is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Music | Genres & Styles - Jazz - Music | Individual Composer & Musician |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.98" W x 9.04" (0.98 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist.--New York Times Book Review Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity, Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist. Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award Finalist |