Description For the first time, serious thinkers explore the work of this towering genius of rock music.
She is author of many books, including 1976, Little Rock (2016) and Only Ride, Little Rock (2014)..
Megan Volpert is a high school English teacher in the Fulton County Schools, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Auxier is a musician and also a professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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His ability to cultivate new generations of listeners while connecting himself backward to the heroes of his own youth have made him universally respected by the widest range of music fans.
He was the center of a musical community that endured over four decades.
Petty stood up to corporate assholes in a number of precedent-setting legal maneuvers and album concepts, risking his career and fortune, but never backing down.
On stage, he put the schau in Anschauung .
It was grit, drive, and just enough finesse, to make things nice, where they Need to be nice.
Petty lived his life the way he wrote and the way he played.
Above all, Petty\'s songs are the confessions of a poetic mind interpreting a wounded soul.
The dialectic of love and hate, abuse and recovery, poverty and power, triumph and loss provide the genuine objects of knowledge.
Petty\'s theory of knowledge is psychological and interpersonal, both deeply meditative and delightfully skeptical.
His political thinking is that of the artist, enlivened by Southern hostilities and Californian futilities, culminating in a personal ethic that puts duty to the fans first.
Tom Petty\'s ethics focuses on dilemmas of the outcast, downtrodden, and heartbroken with a view to the fallen and the sinful as our redeemable antiheroes of the everyday.
His insight into the human condition conveys a powerful philosophical anthropology with a metaphysics of tragedy, gravity, and levity.
Tom Petty\'s songs hook and they captivate, but they are often profound in their understatement, their stark minimalism.
There is the legacy left to his main backing band, the Heartbreakers, but also bookended by Mudcrutch and his collaborations with his elders, such as Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash.
Tom Petty\'s body of work exists on a continuum between Folk and Rock, between New Wave and Americana, between Southern simplicity and West Coast chic.
The authors, all Petty fans, come from every philosophical viewpoint: classical, analytic, postmodernist, phenomenological, and Nietzschean.
They examine not only Tom Petty\'s thoughts but also the thoughts we have while we listen.
For fans of Tom Petty, this volume is an eye-opener, with fourteen music-savvy philosophers looking at different facets of Petty\'s artistic contribution.
Description For the first time, serious thinkers explore the work of this towering genius of rock music
