Standing By
Berkeley and the Bay Area, 1964-1974
Published on 6. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-9907588-7-7 (ISBN)
Description
Berkeley and San Francisco, 1964-1974: a memoir of the beginning of a critic's career in public radio and television and the Oakland Tribune, with notes on musical compositions, a growing family, the early years of Chez Panisse, and the burgeoning art and music scene in the Bay Area at an epochal moment.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9907588-7-7 (9780990758877)
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Person
The writer and composer Charles Shere was music director at KPFA-fm, announcer and producer at KQED-tv, and art and music critic at the Oakland Tribune. He has been associated with the restaurant Chez Panisse since its founding, and has published books on the composer Robert Erickson, on Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp, and a number of books of travel essays. A fifth-generation Californian, he considers himself a modernist and a regionalist, with a strong interest in Place.