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| Title | : | Tuning Up at Dawn: A Memoir of Music and Majorca |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0007128177 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
'I've used what's left of my eardrums to describe the culture I was born into, and to contrast it with the British culture I was educated in.' Tomas Graves was born in and belongs to Mallorca (even if he did go to boarding school in England as a teenager). Once democracy was brought back to Spain, regional movements surged, taking their music with them. His love and respect for the special beauties of Mallorcan culture shine on every page of this infectiously happy book. He is a musician himself, and his own musical escapades give the book its very individual architecture. A host of musical stars -- Jimi Hendrix, Kevin Ayers, Bob Geldof, Sinead O'Connor, Eurovision contestants, summer-anthem songwriters -- tarried in Majorca and provide the soundtrack to this rhythmic, irresistible tour around a magical island and its magical culture.. Music has always been important to all Spanish-speaking peoples. In this dancing, darting book, Graves traces the development and fusion of a host of styles, Spanish and imported -- flamenco, rock, jota, rumba, blues, salsa, punk. His father, the great love poet Robert Graves, famously ended up in the beautiful Mediterranean island pretty much by accident, but it is the happiest accident of Tomas' life. Under Franco's severe repressions, music was often the one form of public expression into which every restricted emotion could be poured. Graves looks at how the key elements of the island's history since the Spanish Civil War
Reading it feels like stumbling upon a nugget of gold among the empty lager cans on Magalluf beach.' Independent on Sunday 'A fascinating and well-written debut showing a rare combination of passion and irony' TLS . reviews for Graves's BREAD & OIL: 'A book born out of obsession and filled like a scrapbook with wit and wisdom' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times 'A work of some scholarship
Enjoyed it!! Mamasan I love this book. It covers so much ground it could spawn many topics for discussion. I love the writing style and he gives so much of the history and culture it is fascinating. I have been reading it very slow as I dont want it to end.
. He is a graphic designer, printer, musician and author of the acclaimed cookbook Bread and Oil. Tomas Graves is the son of Robert Graves. He lives in Deia, on the north coast of Majorca
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