Eminent Hipsters

Name: Eminent Hipsters
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ISBN: 9780670025510

ISBN-10: 0670025518

ISBN-13: 9780670025510

Edition: N/A

Authors: Donald Fagen

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A witty, revealing, sharply written work of memoir and criticism by the cofounder of Steely DanMusician and songwriter Donald Fagen presents a group of vivid set pieces in his entertaining debut as an author, from portraits of the cultural figures and currents that shaped him as a youth to an account of his college days and of life on the road.Fagen begins by introducing the eminent hipsters” that spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s, among them Jean Shepherd, whose manic nightly broadcasts out of WOR-Radio enthralled a generation of alienated young people”; Henry Mancini, whose swank, noirish soundtracks left their mark on him; and Mort Fega,…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction


Boswells' Version


Henry Mancini's Anomie Deluxe


The Cortico-Thalamic Pause: Growing Up Sci-Fi


I Was a Spy for Jean Shepherd


In the Clubs


Uncle Mort


A Talk with Ennio Morricone


Exit the Genius


The Devil and Dee Turner


Class of '69


With the Dukes of September


Acknowledgments