{"product_id":"9781250128362","title":"Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best music books of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Greenman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author, contributing writer to the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race and gender, rewrote the rules of identity, and redefined the role of sex in pop music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton and Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince’s music to tell both his story and the story of the paradigm-shifting ideas that he communicated to his millions of fans around the world.  Greenman's take on Prince is the autobiography of a generation and its ideas. Asking a series of questions—not only “Who was Prince?” but “Who wasn’t he?” and “Who are \u003ci\u003ewe\u003c\/i\u003e?”—\u003ci\u003eDig if You Will the Picture\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122057494768,"sku":"9781250128362","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250128362_p0.jpg?v=1769892891","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250128362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}