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Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica" (33 1/3) (Paperback)

by Kevin Courrier (Author)
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  • Paperback: 152 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (15 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0826427812
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826427816
  • Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 11.9 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 252,848 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica", a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. Yet, even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of music, much of the record's artistic strength is actually drawn from the past. This book examines how Beefheart's incomparable opus is informed by a variety of diverse sources. "Trout Mask Replica" is a hybrid of the poetic declarations of Walt Whitman and the beat writer Gregory Corso, the field hollers of the Delta Blues legend Charley Patton, the urban blues of Howlin' Wolf, the free jazz of Ornette Coleman and the early Southern Californian R&B sound of Richard Berry and the Coasters. This book illustrates how "Trout Mask Replica", far from being an arcane specimen of the avant-garde, was instead a defiantly original declaration of the American imagination.


About the Author

Kevin Courrier is the author of several books, including Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Zappa and Randy Newman's American Dreams. He has been a writer/broadcaster and film critic for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) since 1990.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, 20 Sep 2008
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Pretty good overview of all the stories and myths surrounding TMR, including mention of an interesting-sounding beat-jazz LP from the 50s which Beefheart apparantely dug, and which seems pretty much impossible to get hold of now (I've tried). The usual simplistic references to Ornette Coleman and free jazz in relation to Beef's improvised sax scrobblings (but then again, they've permeated most Beef criticism since Lester Bangs), but useful nonetheless, apart from that. And it's as much about Beefheart's career as a whole as it is about the particular album (though with some decent close analysis), so provides a pocket-sized alternative to Mike Barnes' bio.
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