NOT FOR YOU: PEARL JAM IN PRESENT TIME

NOT FOR YOU: PEARL JAM IN PRESENT TIME

The first full biography of the legendary band is a fact!

Circulates from OXY Publications, in collaboration with Avopolis.Gr and in translation Panos Tomaras. THE Ronen Givony succeeds through biography "The Pearl Jam in Present Tense" to highlight the self-evident; Oi Pearl Jam they are part of our culture. Not just because their songs have become the backdrop for birthdays and weddings, and not just because they shaped much of the music, legend and lore of the 90s. Their public image, their unabashed optimism, their social consciousness, their active participation, their activism, the ethos they helped create, were all radical in the world of mainstream rock.

After eleven albums, sales of 85 million records and more than a thousand concerts in fifty different countries, consistency and integrity, they continue to remind us of what only music can give us temporarily: a better world.

The NOT FOR YOU: PEARL JAM IN PRESENT TIME is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary American band. A detached study of their role in the history of music, but also of American culture in general and at the same time a dive both into the beginnings of the grunge music movement and the Seattle scene, and ultimately into the entire 90s.

The NOT FOR YOU: PEARL JAM IN PRESENT TIME is not yet another biography of a band, nor a common retrospective of any artist, rather it manages to compose a thorough study of their work, with a deeper understanding of the social background of the time, but also to file an essay on adolescence, nostalgia and adulthood · the ultimate tribute to all their fans.

About the author:

THE Ronen Givony has yet written the 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (2018), also released by the publishing house Bloomsbury. He is the founder of the orchestra Wordless Music and the concert series of the same name (wordlessmusic.org), named by The New Yorker as the most inventive concert series in New York and by the Village Voice as "the best moderately loud concert series". He was born in Miami and has worked in organizing concerts in many halls and festivals in the United States and elsewhere.