Once Upon a Time in Shaolin : The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1909762652
ISBN-13
9781909762657
Publisher
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
Imprint
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 5th, 2017
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
256 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Rap & Hip-HopIndividual composers & musicians, specific bands & groupsMusic industry
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Written in vivid detail, Cyrus Bozorgmehr documents the untold story behind one of the most controversial and innovative album releases in modern music history: Wu Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
The untold story behind one of the most controversial album releases in modern music history, for fans of the Wu-Tang Clan, hip-hop music, and all those interested in the music industry. Take a kid with a dream. A legendary hip hop group. 6 years of secret recordings. A casing worthy of a king. A single artifact. Hallowed establishment institutions. An iconoclastic auction house. The world''s foremost museum of modern art. A bidding war. Endless crises of conscience. An angry mob. A furious beef. A sale. A villain of Lex Luthor-like proportions. Bill Murray. The FBI. The internet gone wild. In 2007, the innovative Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz, feeling that digitisation increasingly supported the perception of music as disposable, took an incendiary idea to his mentor, hip hop legend, RZA: create a unique physical copy of a secret Wu-Tang album, to be encased in silver and sold through auction as a work of contemporary art. The plan raised a number of complex questions: Would selling one album for millions be the ultimate betrayal of music? How would fans react to an album that''s sold on condition it could not be commercialised? And could anyone justify the ultimate sale of the album to the infamous pharmaceutical mogul Martin Shkreli? "An epic battle between colorful, creative maniacal heroes and one of the blandest beta-villains of our time. Couldn''t put it down."Patton Oswalt, comedian and bestselling author of Silver Screen Fiend
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