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I'm a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock 'n' Roll

I'm a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock 'n' Roll

by RuthPadel (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

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Synopsis

This is a witty, sparklingly argued study about the links between rock, maleness, and the Greek myths. In a boldly original thesis, Ruth Padel examines a hundred interweaving strands of image and influence. She takes us from the pop single to the operatic aria; from opera to Greek drama; and from there to the Greek myths which became the West's blueprint of sexual adventure. She relates the spotlit, adulated rock god to his classical ancestors - Dionysus, Narcissus, Hercules. She also tracks the story of rock through 20th century history, investigating the links betwen male dreams of violence, misogyny, and - above all - of blackness.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 409
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 17 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 0571175996
ISBN 13: 9780571175994
Book Overview: I'm a Man by Ruth Padel examines the links between rock music, maleness and the Greek myths with wit, insight and sparkling argument.

Author Bio
Ruth Padel was born in London in 1947 and educated at Oxford. She lived several years in Greece and worked as a Greek scholar before becoming a freelance writer. She has won the National Poetry Competition and published three books about reading modern poetry, most recently Silent Letters of the Alphabet. Other non-fiction includes I'm a Man, about rock music and Greek myth, and Tigers in Red Weather, a nature book and travel memoir about the years she spent searching for tigers in Asian jungles. She has published six collections of poems, most recently The Soho Leopard (2004), and her verse biography Darwin: A Life in Poems was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Prize. Her first novel is Where the Serpent Lives.