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Nik Cohn

    January 1, 1946

    Peter Guralnick is lauded for his profound insight into the roots of American music. His work delves into the soul of rock and roll and R&B, exploring their cultural and social impacts. Guralnick's perceptive style and his ability to capture the essence of his subjects make him a definitive storyteller of music history.

    Manhattan Babylon
    Yes We Have No
    Themes and Movements: Pop
    The Heart of the World
    Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
    Rock Dreams
    • Eine brillante Reportage über New Orleans Rap - erzählt von einer Ikone der Rock-'n'-Roll-Kritik. Nik Cohn, Erfinder eines ganz neuen journalistischen Stils, berichtet vom Leben und Sterben schwarzer Rapper in „Crescent City“. Er begibt sich auf Talentsuche in den ärmsten, schwärzesten Vierteln jener Stadt, die er in ihrer Schönheit und ihrer Verkommenheit noch mehr liebt als die Musik. Cohns neues Buch ist das literarische Dokument einer auch in den USA wenig bekannten Hip-Hop-Szene und zugleich ein Abgesang auf eine einzigartige Musikmetropole, die nach dem Hurrikan Katrina so nicht mehr existiert.

      Triksta2008
    • Themes and Movements: Pop

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Exploring the evolution of Pop culture from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, this comprehensive survey examines its impact on art, film, photography, and architecture, highlighting the interplay between mass production and mass media. Unlike other works that focus solely on Pop art, it offers a holistic view of the movement's influence across America, Britain, and Europe, showcasing its diverse manifestations and cultural significance during this transformative era.

      Themes and Movements: Pop2005
    • Yes We Have No

      Adventures in Other England

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      There will always be an England, no doubt, but what sort of England will it be? Cohn takes a long wild ride through a country he calls the Republic - a nation within a nation, populated by the many millions who have either fallen out of the Britannic mainstream, or chosen to jump. He meets the rising stars of a new culture, and also the casualties. Their collected stories, both weird and wonderful, combine to form a tapestry quite unlike any notion of England that has ever existed before. It is a land made up, among others, of outlaws and insurgents, rampaging natives, second-generation immigrants, visionaries, born-agains, football fans, fetishists, gays, New Age travellers, anarchists, DJs, street-fighters, graffiti artists Rastas, Odinists, Elvis impersonators, fire-swallowers and even the Antichrist. Loud and angry, and charged with furious energy, their voices define a world cut loose from tradition and all certainty. Gone bananas, in fact. Nik Cohn's republic may not be the only England out there. But it's the most vivid.

      Yes We Have No2000
    • Summer in the City: Schon um sieben Uhr in der Frühe hat es 90 Grad Fahrenheit in New York, in der ganzen Stadt brechen Brände aus, und an den Straßenecken verkünden Prediger die kommende Apokalypse. In Ferdousines Zoo mit den exotischen Vögeln und Schlangen treffen ein paar verirrte Seelen aufeinander: Kate Root, Tochter eines Messerwerfers und Nichte eines berühmten Cricketspielers, einst Wahrsagerin, jetzt die Hüterin des Zoos; Anna Crow, Bauchtänzerin in einem orientalischen Schmuddellokal und Vorleserin von Gedichten. Sie liebt Willie, den puertoricanischen Zuhälter und Gelegenheitsganoven, doch der liebt am meisten seine Schuhe aus Armadilloleder. Zu ihnen stößt John Joe, frisch angekommen aus Donegal, Irland. Sein schwarzes Muttermal bringt ihn in Kontakt mit einer Sekte, die in den U-Bahn-Schächten Manhattans lebt und den Weltuntergang predigt. In einem furiosen Finale kommt es zur Verwirklichung ihrer Vision. »King Cohn« hat einen apokalyptisch-visionären Roman über die Endzeit und den Großstadtdschungel geschrieben, dessen Botschaft lauten könnte: Nur die Freaks, nur die Entrechteten und Enterbten werden dereinst diese verbrannte Erde erben.

      Manhattan Babylon1999
      3.0
    • The Heart of the World

      • 371 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Nik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls "The Heart of the World." producing a book that is a resplendent pageant of New York's high-and low-life. Among the characters we meet are a golden-tongued cab driver who calls himself a "collector of farces"; a pickpocket with the terrifying gift of impersonating his marks; a heartbreakingly beautiful Dominican tranvestite named Lush Life; strippers; pseudo-prophets; and a disgraced political veteran of the days when the graft was still honest. Conducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet, this is a bebop odyssey along the Great White Way that reaches in implication far beyond the streets of New York to document the ever-evolving mixtures that make up America itself.

      The Heart of the World1992
      3.5
    • Rock Dreams

      • 146 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Overzicht in collages van bekende figuren uit de rock-muziek, vanaf Elvis Presley to en met The Who.

      Rock Dreams1974
      4.4
    • Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose- to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had written a serious book on the subject before, and there were no reference books or research to refer to. The result is an unruly, thrilling and definitive history of an era, from Bill Haley to Jimi Hendrix, full of guts, flash, energy and speed. In vividly describing the music and cutting through the hype, Nik Cohn engendered and perfected a new form- rock criticism.

      Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom1971
      3.8