
By Cornel Bonca
In
Paul Simon: An American Tune, Cornel Bonca considers Simon’s monstrous trove of songs within the biographical and cultural context within which he wrote them: from the pop cultural revolution of the Nineteen Sixties which Simon himself helped to create, the singer-songwriter flow of the Nineteen Seventies, the flip towards global track within the Nineteen Eighties that gave the area the enormous Graceland, to the intimate own flip his song took within the millennial period. interpreting Simon’s albums one after the other, usually tune through tune, Bonca offers a deep and crafty exploration of the paintings of 1 of today’s significant songwriters.Offering a lucid and brilliant portrait of an outstanding decades-long occupation,
Paul Simon: An American music will curiosity a large viewers, from Simon lovers to scholars and students of yank pop culture.