Why Sinatra Matters

副标题: Sinatra Matters

ISBN: 9780316738866

出版社: Little Brown & Co

出版年: 2003-5

页数: 192

定价: $ 15.81

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Drawing upon intimate conversations over the course of many years, Hamill evokes the essence of Sinatra - examining his art and his legend from the inside. Shaped by Prohibition, the Depression, and war, Sinatra became the troubadour of urban loneliness; he was one of the few artists of the 20th century to break through an ethnic parochialism that imprisoned so many turn-of-the-century immigrants and their children. With his songs, he enabled millions of others to tell their own stories, thus providing an entire generation with a sense of tradition and pride belonging distinctly to them. Products of the same urban landscape, both Hamill and Sinatra can be credited with giving the American city a voice. This is a touching portrait of a 20th-century icon.