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Pick Up the Pieces

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Pick Up the Pieces

By John Corbett

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About the book

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 song, album by album, he draws our imaginations back int...Show more

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ISBN

9780226604732

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2019

Language

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1

Original title

Pick Up the Pieces

Format

Hardcover

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