YOUR HEART OUT PRESENTS:
A MOMENT WORTH WAITING FOR
by Kevin Pearce
NEW BOOK OUT NOW IN
AN EXCLUSIVE ELECTRONIC EDITION
A mesmerising dub history of late twentieth-century
popular culture emerges when a writer stops to consider the forces that have shaped
his musical explorations.
Set initially over a two-year period at the start
of the 1980s, the book zooms back and forth through time, tracing where clues
led and how things fit together, to understand better the urge to hear and
learn something new, to look at art in a new way.
Part of the focus is on how things were originally presented,
how ideas were absorbed, how names recur, and the long-term impact. In that
sense it is a celebration of journalists on the music press like Sounds’ Dave
McCullough, the NME’s Ian Penman, and several others: the contexts they
created, the chances they took, the seeds they planted, the searches they
prompted.
Musically, the book starts with Vic Godard’s
‘What’s The Matter Boy’ LP and takes in some of the activities of the ZE,
Postcard, Rough Trade, Y and On-U Sound labels, as well as Eddy Grant, A
Certain Ratio, Frank Sinatra, Weekend, Pale Fountains, Everything But The Girl,
and many others. These sounds in turn lead to torch songs and vocal jazz, ’60s
soul and lovers rock, disco dub and afrobeat, bossa nova and samba, skiffle and
music hall, calypso and free jazz, Bristol blues ’n’ roots and the Chicago
underground, British funk and Nigerian boogie, Greek neo kyma and Cuban nueva
trova singers, plus a whole lot more.
The author is Kevin Pearce, whose work includes the
acclaimed book ‘Something Beginning With O’ and film scripts for Paul
Kelly/Saint Etienne. He contributed regularly to the Tangents website, and ran
the irregular publication ‘Your Heart Out’ for five years and fifty editions.
This book is an attempt at understanding what has been behind all these words
and ideas. The text draws together and elaborates on themes from these and
other sources.
‘A Moment Worth Waiting For’ is the perfect diversion
for those who love playing with words and patterns and clues, and for those who
believe there should be more than one solution to any jigsaw puzzle.
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