eBook - ePub

Dig If You Will the Picture

Name: Dig If You Will the Picture
ISBN: 9781250128362

Funk, Sex, God, & Genius in the Music of Prince

Ben Greenman,

304 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Dig If You Will the Picture

Funk, Sex, God, & Genius in the Music of Prince

Ben Greenman,

About this book

"Greenman's absorbing and entertaining study of Prince and his music compellingly underscores the Purple One's enduring contributions to pop music." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Named One of the Best Music Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal

Ben Greenman, New York Times–bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race and gender, rewrote the rules of identity, and redefined the role of sex in pop music.

A polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton and Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince's music to tell both his story and the story of the paradigm-shifting ideas that he communicated to his millions of fans around the world. Greenman's take on Prince is the autobiography of a generation and its ideas. Asking a series of questions—not only "Who was Prince?" but "Who wasn't he?" and "Who are we?"— Dig if You Will the Picture is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary talent.

"When it comes to funk and words, lyrics and language, there couldn't be a better pairing than Ben Greenman and Prince." —George Clinton

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