Don McLean - Macfarlane, Thomas
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This book explores the legacy of singer-songwriter Don McLean and his enduring work. Don McLean: A Musical Tapestry recounts the artist's early development, including the influence of Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, his engagement with social, political, and cultural phenomena through music, and the incorporation of visual elements into his songs. Working chronologically, from Tapestry (1970) to American Pie (1971) all the way through to American Boys (2024), the book explores the reception of McLean's work in the wake of the success of American Pie, concluding with a consideration of how the artist…mehr

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This book explores the legacy of singer-songwriter Don McLean and his enduring work. Don McLean: A Musical Tapestry recounts the artist's early development, including the influence of Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, his engagement with social, political, and cultural phenomena through music, and the incorporation of visual elements into his songs. Working chronologically, from Tapestry (1970) to American Pie (1971) all the way through to American Boys (2024), the book explores the reception of McLean's work in the wake of the success of American Pie, concluding with a consideration of how the artist ultimately came to terms with the cultural impact of his most famous song, "American Pie." The discussions featured in this volume employ songscape, an approach involving musical explorations from the perspective of a composer, descriptions of recording process, and interpretations of the spatial imagery evident on the finished track. It allows for the consideration of entire albums as galleries of recorded sound. In the process, it explores how artistic gestures can effectively unfold across various art forms. This approach generates new insights into a complex and compelling creative process and one artist's work over five decades.
Autorenporträt
Thom MacFarlane is an independent author and composer based in New Jeresy, USA. His research has focused on the relationship between music, sound recording, and human culture. His doctoral dissertation on the Beatles' Abbey Road Medley was adapted into a book in 2007. In 2012, he completed The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age, in which the ideas of Marshall McLuhan were employed to explore the aesthetic qualities of multi-track recording. That book also featured the first complete published transcription of a conversation between John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Marshall McLuhan on their respective ideas. In 2016, he created a listener's companion on the works of singer-songwriter Billy Joel, and in 2019, a study on the music of George Harrison. His latest book, Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound, explores connections between music, sound recording, and the visual arts.