Tue, Sep 24
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Joe Boyd, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
From the legendary producer of Nick Drake, R.E.M., Toots and the Maytals, and Pink Floyd and author of "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s" comes a riveting, world-spanning tour de force illuminating the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 24, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
CW is proud to co-present this event with AMP Concerts.
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here
Purchase And the Roots of Rhythm Remain (hardcover, $40) from CW here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
About the Book
Paul Simon told Joe Boyd that when he first heard the accordion flourish that would open his multi-platinum album Graceland, it seemed to proclaim, “You haven’t heard this before!” Yet the 1980s “world music” boom that Simon’s album helped usher in had roots that extended back through the decades and across continents: tango on the eve of World War I, Latin dance across the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, reggae in the ’70s, pre-War samba and pre-Beatles bossa nova, Eastern European ensembles filling capitalist concert halls during the Cold War, Indian ragas changing rock and roll in the 1960s, the folk music–inspired…