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S'està carregant… Frank: The Voice (2010)de James Kaplan
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Very interesting read. I really enjoyed the analysis of how Sinatra made his singing so evocative and powerful. Some of the details about his inner feelings and those of the people in his life seemed impossible for the author to have been in on, and the writing was occasionally over the top, but I would definitely recommend this to Sinatra fans. ( ) A very interesting, engaging, and generally well-balanced account of Frank Sinatra's life from birth up to the early 1950s (the point where he won an Oscar for his role as Maggio in From Here to Eternity). There's a lot of interesting material and analysis regarding his musicianship, and a good look at some of the myths and legends (such as how he landed the role of Maggio, and how he left the Dorsey orchestra). My only irritation was the odd placement of footnotes -- something corrected in the next volume. A very well done bio on the early years of Frank Sinatra's most storied life and career. I was not a big fan and he was before my time but I am glad I was able experience his really amazing life in this work. Maybe one of the most talented and flawed men in the entertainment world certainly there was, and are no more of his ilk. The crash and burn and the Phoenix rise make for a rather riveting read that James Kaplan reveals spectacularly. It made me revisit the early recordings and marvel at the talent and ponder what went into their production as relayed in the book. The tumultuous nature of his marriages was also fascinating. The contrast between Nancy and Ava could not be more revealing to his compulsions and obsessions. There is a lot here to put together many of the pieces of this complex man. I look forward to the second edition and am left with one thing that stands out from this one; few have probably packed more into a lifetime then this guy.
James Kaplan’s Frank: The Voice is authentically a page-turner, a strident tabloid epic constructed out of facts—or more precisely out of the disparate and sometimes contradictory testimony of scores of participants in Frank Sinatra’s early life. There is certainly enough testimony to choose from; pieces of Sinatra, variously skewed and distorted, are scattered all over the latter part of the twentieth century. But they hardly converge into a unified portrait: confronted with the multitude of Sinatras that one must attempt to resolve into a single plausible person, there is a gathering sense of unsettling dissonance quite at odds with the perfected harmonies of his greatest recordings.
Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict of his own personality. He also made the very act of listening to pop music a more personal experience than it had ever been. In "Frank: The Voice," Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable vocal instrument. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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