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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince Hardback - 2017

by Ben Greenman

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Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal

A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our culture

Ben Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race and gender, rewrote the rules of identity, and redefined the role of sex in pop music.

A polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton and Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince's music to tell both his story and the story of the paradigm-shifting ideas that he communicated to his millions of fans around the world. Greenman's take on Prince is the autobiography of a generation and its ideas. Asking a series of questions--not only "Who was Prince?" but "Who wasn't he?" and "Who are we?"--Dig if You Will the Picture is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary talent.

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  • Title Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
  • Author Ben Greenman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Company
  • Publication date 2017-04
  • ISBN 9781250128379 / 1250128374
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.63 x 6.3 x 1.05 in (21.92 x 16.00 x 2.67 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock musicians - United States, Musicians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016054759
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad, he was Questlove's collaborator on Mo' Meta Blues and Something to Food About, and he has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.

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