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Experiencing Peter Gabriel

Experiencing Peter Gabriel

Durrell Bowman

Rowman Littlefield
2016
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In Experiencing Peter Gabriel, author Durrell Bowman delves into the sounds and stories of the innovative, versatile, English pop icon. As not only a singer-songwriter and musician, but also a music technologist, world-music champion, and humanitarian, Gabriel has consistently maintained an unabashed individualism and dedication to his artistry. From 1969 to 1975, Gabriel served as the lead singer, flute player, occasional percussionist, and frequent songwriter and lyricist of the progressive rock band Genesis. With the band, Gabriel made six studio albums, a live album, and numerous performances and concert tours. The early version of Genesis made some of the most self-consciously complex pop music ever released. However, on the cusp of Genesis becoming a major act internationally, Gabriel did the unthinkable and left the group. Gabriel’s solo career has encompassed nine studio albums, plus five film/media scores, additional songs, videos, major tours, and other projects. As a solo artist and collaborator, he has worked with first-rate musicians and produced unrivaled tracks such as the U.S. No. 1 hit “Sledgehammer.” Gabriel won six Grammy Awards in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as numerous additional awards and honors for his music and his videos, as well as for his humanitarian work. From his early work with Genesis to his substantial contributions as a solo artist, Gabriel’s music ranges from chart-topping pop songs to experimental explorations often filled with disarmingly personal emotions. Experiencing Peter Gabriel investigates the career of this magnetic performer and uncovers how Gabriel developed a sound so full of raw authenticity that it continues to attract new fans from across the world.
Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel García Márquez: Cultural Ascendancy and the Shaping of Literary Figures
Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel Garc a M rquez share a number of traits in their development as writers. Both men achieved both literary and commercial success during their lifetimes. Both were driven to express themselves in writing from an early age; both began that quest as journalists. Both traveled to Europe as correspondents, and both wrote fiction in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Havana, and Mexico City, often choosing to write about one place while living in another. The two share a love of Spain and of Cuba, sympathy for the tenets of the Cuban revolution, and an acquaintance in the person of Fidel Castro. Both received the Nobel Prize for literature at the age of fifty-five, and both are highly praised throughout the world. Still, the two men developed quite distinct writing styles as their crafts evolved, and each is representative of the culture that shaped the writer. Hemingway produced a literature of the individual. His themes of rugged individualism, loneliness, isolation, despair, decadence, disillusionment, grace, and solitude epitomize the American loss of innocence in the years following World War I. Garc a M rquez's work is a literature of a different kind of solitude-one experienced not by an individual, but by an entire people. His works explore the human condition of the people of Latin America by revealing their collective dreams, flaws, misfortunes, triumphs, and passions. Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel Garc a M rquez are legendary literary figures, whose works have touched millions and will convey their message for generations to come: the message of life, death, love, solitude, and two quite valid, yet uniquely distinct, realities.