Playing the Blues: Pete Townshend's Who I Am and Music as Experimental Autobiography

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2013
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2013-06-02
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Reviewer Tim Keane suggests that Pete Townshend’s memoir Who I Am captures the tension animating The Who’s career, the duality of autobiographical blues and (art-school inspired) auto-destruction. But, Keane suggests, the book also articulates the written autobiography’s inevitable (if sometimes interesting) failure to achieve the "ex-static" atemporality of music. "I Can’t Explain" ends up telling us more about Townshend’s soul than Who I Am.

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Pål Alvsaker