The words and music of Tom Waits
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Publishers,
c2009.
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| Series: | Praeger singer-songwriter collection.
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Table of Contents:
- Life and works, in brief
- Music, instrumentation, and voice. Night on earth: a nomadic soundtrack ; Dirty water on a swordfishtrombone ; A voice from the gutter ; The black box
- Tom's Wanderers: character and narrative in the music of Tom Waits ; Nighthawks and tire tramps ; Rain dogs ; The pianist has been drinking ; Black market babies ; The only kind of love ; Soldier's things and sailor's dreams ; Train songs ; The wild years ; Human oddities ; A little drop of poison: outlaws and bandits ; Crossroads ; Sururalism
- Beautiful maladies: Tom Waits' realism ; Closing time.