Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street JournalA unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, & electricity of the pop legend Prince & his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, & owner of thousands of recordings of Prince & 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 & chameleon, & a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race & gender, rewrote the rules of identity, & redefined the role of sex in pop music.A polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton & Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to & writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan & the skills of a critic, journalist, & novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince’s music to tell both his story & 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 & its ideas. Asking a series of questions―not only “Who was Prince?” but “Who wasn’t he?” & “Who are we?”―Dig if You Will the Picture is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary talent.Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker. He is the author of the story collections What He's Poised to Do; Superbad; & A Circle Is a Balloon & Compass Both: Stories About Human Love, & the novels Superworse & Please Step Back. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife & two children.

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Greenman, Ben

St. Martin's Press

Wednesday Books

Tor Nightfire

United States, United States of America

First edition., New York State, 2017

Annotated, US, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284), discography (pages 263-280), and index.

**Named one of the best music books of 2017 by __The Wall Street Journal__**
**A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our culture**
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.

Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal
A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our culture
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.

Foreword / by Questlove
Introduction. The end
Man, music. Life can be so nice : his life and its beginnings
Baby I'm a star : his music and its beginnings
Brand new groove : his music and its properties
Musicology : his music and its imitators
Meaning. Girls and boys : sex in his music
Walk by the mirror : self in his music
What time is it? : others in his music
I wish u heaven : virtue and sin in his music
America : race and politics in his music
Methods, madness. What's my name : why he changed his name, and what that wrought
MPLS : how his hometown made him and how he, in turn, made it
Call the law : how he grew frustrated with fans and the internet
It's gonna be a beautiful night : when he was onstage
The work : how he produced so much for so long
Memory. Such a shame our friendship had to end
Appendix. Let's work : annotated discography and song index.

An exploration of the life and legacy of Prince discusses his vibrant and prolific output, the paradigm-shifting ideas in his music, and his wide-ranging impact on modern culture.

2018-03-26