Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music

by John Corbett

Book Overview

Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest--from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With Pick Up the Pieces, John Corbett transports us back in time to this thrillingly tumultuous era through a playful exploration of its music. Song by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022660473X
• ISBN13: 9780226604732
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"