TY - BOOK ID - 137901643 TI - Power ballads PY - 2011 SN - 1609380436 9781609380434 9781609380427 1609380428 PB - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, DB - UniCat KW - Musicians UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137901643 AB - Real musicians don't sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician. From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transce ER -