Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar
Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar
$24.95
Hadar, Dori
Pap. New York, 2007
Book ID: 75370
In the late nineteen-sixties, Mike Stevens, a teen-aged ghetto daydreamer in Washington, D.C., imagined a fabulous existence as Mingering Mike, a soul-music superstar, and he hand-painted a series of colorfully exuberant record-album jackets representing his explosive career. Between 1968 and 1977, he painted some fifty LP covers and nearly as many 45 r.p.m. picture sleeves (inserting cardboard disks with labels and even painted grooves). Into this fictive discography he wove an elaborate personal mythology; pictures, titles, and liner notes incorporate many references to his neighborhood and his family.
192 pp., color illus.
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