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Why Karen Carpenter Matters

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Why Karen Carpenter Matters

De: Karen Tongson
Narrado por: Karen Tongson
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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy - the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age 32 from the effects of an eating disorder.

In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between Manila - where imitations of American pop styles flourished - and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her - as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound while finding the beauty in the singer's flawed, all too brief life.

©2019 Karen Tongson (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
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Karen's T's intelligence and her willingness to explore the societal aspects of KC's life

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Great book! I enjoyed listening to the author's take on her namesake, and the process of acclimating to the USA compared to the Philippines. Very well written.

Very well-written and insightful book

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Very enjoyable book intertwining author's life and Karen Carpenter's life.Recommend all Carpenter fan's listen to this autible read.

Good explanation of how Karen carpenter impacted music.

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everything about this re aste of money and time. it was not about kc, all-out the queer

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This should have been a private journal.
As a lifelong Karen Carpenter fan, I know readers wouldn’t be interested in my fandom. While I wasn’t named after her like the writer, I could find connections between our lives that would be of no interest to anyone but me.

Skip it

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Dropping fancy words into a drippy diatribe did not make it any better.
I was intrigued by the title but disappointed in the context

Pretentious at its best

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