{"product_id":"9781789146639-song-noir","title":"Song Noir","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eExamines Tom Waits’ first nine albums, created in and shaped by Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSong Noir \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the formative first decade of Tom Waits’s career, when he lived, wrote and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles; from his soft, folk-inflected debut, \u003ci\u003eClosing Time \u003c\/i\u003e(1973), to the abrasive, surreal \u003ci\u003eSwordfishtrombones\u003c\/i\u003e (1983). Starting his song-writing career in the ’70s, Waits absorbed LA's wealth of cultural influences. Combining the spoken idioms of writers like Kerouac and Bukowski with jazz-blues rhythms, he explored the city’s literary and film noir traditions to create hallucinatory dreamscapes.\u003cbr\u003eWaits mined a rich seam of the city’s low-life locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark imagination. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, Waits turned quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing and emblematic; a vision of LA as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40950010052705,"sku":"9781789146639","price":11.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34340752.jpg?v=1747276170","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781789146639-song-noir","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}