It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track

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When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, legendary music critic Ian Penman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and cross-colour awareness was born. His cast of characters includes the Mods, James Brown, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, John Fahey, Steely Dan and Prince - black artists who were innovators, and white musicians who copied them for the mainstream. 'Prose that glides and shimmies and pivots on risky metaphors, low puns and highbrow reference points' — Brian Dillon, frieze Ian Penman's first book in twenty years is cause for celebration.