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Way Too Fast
John Farmer, Jr.
其他書名
An American Reckoning: the Life and Music of Danny Degennaro
出版Excluded Middle LLC, 2022-03-21
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralMusic / General
ISBN9798985325706
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dZLuzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Way Too Fast is about Danny DeGennaro, a superbly talented musician from Levittown, Pennsylvania, who was brutally murdered in December 2011. It is the story of one man's life, a fading generation, loss, music and friendship. Danny's story does not fit the tropes of our popular music literature. His was not the life of a world-famous rock star whose autobiographies fill the shelves of libraries and Kindle inboxes; his life more closely resembles the lives that those more famous musicians sing about but don't ever really live, their songs recounted at a comfortable distance from their subjects' lives, particularly once fame and money have insulated them from the struggles of daily life. What took shape in the author's mind was the story of one man's life, to be sure, but it was also a story of his time, of our time, the biography of a fading generation. It's a story bounded by personal and generational loss but bridged by the sustaining power of friendship and the healing power of music. Danny's relative obscurity ensured that he remain rooted in a time and circumstances that his genius - for that is what it was - would struggle mightily to overcome and, as a consequence of that struggle, would transmute to art. For that reason, Danny's life and music is a more accurate lens through which to view the turbulence of his - of our - era. Danny's life and its expression in his music is an essential thread stitching together the varied strands of cultural reckoning that has so marked the past sixty years. Like millions of others, Danny was born into the exuberant world of post-war suburbia and the post-war industrial middle class; his was the life of the children running through unfenced yards of suburban neighborhoods, and then he lived through the gradual erosion of the post-war dream: tragedies, race riots, assassinations of presidents, the bitter aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam; the emergence of the drug culture; the album culture; then the great displacement, the decline of factories, churches, parks and schools and every sustaining institution of Danny's youth.