Peter Guralnick (lahir 15 Desember 1943) adalah seorang kritikus musik, pengarang dan penulis naskah Amerika Serikat. Ia mengkhususkan diri dalam sejarah awal rock'n'roll dan telah menulis karya-karya berpengaruh tentang Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, dan Sam Cooke.

Karier

Guralnick lulus dari Boston University pada 1971 dengan sebuah gelar master dalam bidang penulisan kreatif. Ia kemudian mulai menulis buku-buku tentang sejarah musik rock'n'roll, musik blues, musik country, dan musik soul. Dua buku pertama Guralnick, Almost Grown (1964) dan Mister Downchild (1967), adalah kumpulan cerpen yang diterbitkan oleh Larry Stark Press, sebuah pers kecil di Cambridge, Massachusetts, yang dicurahkan untuk cerita dan puisi. Mona Dickson, yang menulis dalam The Tech (13 Mei 1964) milik MIT, memberikan ulasan positif kepada Almost Grown.

Buku

Peter Guralnick (1964). Almost Grown. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Larry Stark Press. Peter Guralnick (1967). Mister Downchild. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Larry Stark Press. Peter Guralnick (1971). Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues, Country, and Rock 'n' Roll. ISBN 0-87690-046-5. Reprinted 1999. ISBN 0-316-33272-0 Peter Guralnick (1979). Lost Highway: Journeys & Arrivals of American Musicians. ISBN 0-316-33274-7. Peter Guralnick (1982). The Listener's Guide to The Blues. New York: Facts on File. Peter Guralnick (1986). Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. ISBN 0-316-33273-9. Peter Guralnick (1988). Nighthawk Blues: A Novel. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 0-938410-64-4. Peter Guralnick (1989). Searching for Robert Johnson. ISBN 0-452-27949-6. Peter Guralnick (1994). Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley. ISBN 0-316-33225-9. Peter Guralnick (1999). Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley. ISBN 0-316-33297-6. Peter Guralnick and Ernst Jorgensen (1999). Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music. ISBN 0-345-42089-6. Peter Guralnick (2005). Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-37794-5. Peter Guralnick (2015). Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock'n'Roll. Little, Brown.

Wawancara

"An Interview with Peter Guralnick" by Griffin Ondaatje and Craig Proctor, Brick: A Literary Journal, Issue 62, Spring 1999. "Caught in a Trap" di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal May 28, 2001). Peter S. Sholtes interviews Peter Guralnick. City Pages Media, January 13, 1999. Archived from the original, 2001-05-26. Music Historian Peter Guralnick — Serious Jibber Jabber with Conan O'Brien (May'13?) discuss PG's 1994 book Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley [1]

Referensi

Pranala luar

For Guralnick, birthday bash starts the Elvis bandwagon rolling By Clarissa Sansone, March 2002. Country Standard Time. Guralnick at SXSW. Authors: Peter Guralnick di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal February 12, 2002). Time Warner Bookmark. Archived from the original 2002-02-12. "Elvis Presley: Baby What You Want Me To Do". By Robert Baird, May 2000. Stereophile (magazine). Camp Alton - Official website Peter Guralnick Collection, Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill