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03139aam a2200397 i 4500 001 928B3368960811ECACD044DE3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220225010009 008 200920t20212021onc 000 0ceng 020 $a 1770415114 020 $a 9781770415119 035 $a (OCoLC)1196172764 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OTP $d UKMGB $d GZD $d CLE $d BKL $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-us--- 082 0 $a 782.42166092/2 $2 23 082 0 $a 781.66 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Tavana, Art, $e author. 245 10 $a Goodbye, Guns n' Roses : $b the crime, beauty, and amplified chaos of America's most polarizing band / $c Art Tavana. 246 30 $a Guns n' Roses : $b America's most polarizing band 246 30 $a Crime, beauty, and amplified chaos of America's most polarizing band 264 1 $a Toronto, Ontario, Canada : $b ECW Press, $c [2021] 300 $a ix, 252 pages ; $c 24 cm 505 0 $a Failure to communicate -- Faces of death -- Runnin' with the devil -- Not a glam band -- Sweet child o' die -- Days of thunder -- On in a million -- Star-spangled danger -- Pump up the volume -- Better off dead. 520 $a "Goodbye, Guns N' Roses transports the reader into a mind-altering trip through the colors, scandals, nihilism, and mythology that make Guns N' Roses so much more than another 'hair metal' band. A valentine and a breakup letter to one of rock's most controversial bands. Goodbye, Guns N' Roses is a genre-rattling attempt to explain the appeal of America's most divisive rock band. While it includes uncharted history and the self-lacerating connoisseurship of a Guns N' Roses fetishist, it is not a recycled chronicle -- this book is a deconstruction of myth, one that blends high and low art sketches to examine how Guns N' Roses impacted popular culture. Unlike those who have penned other treatments of what might be considered a clicheÌd subject, Art Tavana is not writing as a GNR patriot or former employee. His book aims to provide an untethered exploration that machetes through the jungle of propaganda camouflaging GNR's explosive appeal. After circling the band's three-decade plundering of American culture, Goodbye, Guns N' Roses uncovers a postmodern portrait that persuades its viewer to think differently about their symbolic importance. This is not a rock bio but a biography of taste that treats a former 'hair metal' band like a decomposing masterpiece. This is the first Guns N' Roses book written for everyone; from the Sunset Strip to a hyper-digital generation's connection to 'Woke Axl,' it is a pop investigation that dodges no bullets." -- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 610 20 $a Guns n' Roses (Musical group) 610 20 $a Guns n' Roses (Musical group) $x Influence. 650 0 $a Rock musicians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220225010054.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=928B3368960811ECACD044DE3FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search