FALCO, Tav and Erick Morse.

Mondo Memphis [ Comprising: Ghosts Behind The Sun By Tav Falco Part and Bluff City Underground By Erik Morse ].

NP [ UK ]: Creation Books, 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 2 Volumes in One. Octavo. 456pp. Illustrated paper covered boards, color b&w illustrations. This hardcover edition limited to 75 copies includes a limited edition b&w photo print signed by Tev Falco. The combined limited edition of this acclaimed "history and psychogeography" of the city of Memphis, Tennessee. The first part, "Ghosts Behind The Sun" is by musician, film-maker, and photographer Tav Falco and is described by the publisher as a "sprawling study of Memphis begins with the Civil War massacre at Fort Pillow, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 and the grisly murders of the Harp Brothers. Falco traces these legends of Reconstruction-era Memphis to an equally brutal twentieth century underworld — Beale Street kingpin Jim Canaan, Edward Crump's political machine, the Dixie Mafia, and others. Also included are revelatory dialogues concerning the city's many music legends, from rockabilly icons Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Feathers to more underground figures such as Jim Dickinson and country blues wailer Jessie Mae Hemphill. Interwoven with these accounts is an autobiographical history of Falco's own time in Memphis, including his involvement with performance art ensemble Insect Trust, working with pop/rock maverick Alex Chilton, and the formation of his seminal rock and roll band, Panther Burns. The book also contains over 80 illuminating photographs, mostly previously unseen originals by Falco." The second part, "Bluff City Underground" by underground author, rock writer and journalist, Erik Morse, is described as a "vertiginous noir novella" set - of course - in Memphis. A little leaned with light bruising to spine ends, else a tight, clean near Fine copy. Item #62914
ISBN: 1840681837

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