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United States Paperback – January 1, 1984

by Laurie Anderson (Author)

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Includes stories, anecdotes, poems, songs, images, and commentary from the author's multi-media concert show

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124 pages
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English
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Harper & Row
Publication date

January 1, 1984
ISBN-10

0060911107
ISBN-13

978-0060911102
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper & Row; First Edition (January 1, 1984)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 124 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060911107
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060911102
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.18 pounds

Best Sellers Rank: #338,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Fulton

Great shape

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2021

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Sold my edition long ago and always regretted it. Excited to find one in excellent shape

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Patrick Weyland-Smith

Really interesting

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017

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Interesting piece of performance art history. Delightful piece of work from Laurie Anderson.

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018

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Item exactly as described. A+++

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2009

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Very rare and delightfull. I can't think why one would sell it, but I'm thankfull for it. Just perfect. It was on top of my wish list forever.

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Michael Sean

Frames For The Pictures

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2000

Published in 1984 as a companion book to Laurie Anderson's massive work-in-progress "United States: Parts I-IV," this engaging collection of images and words succeeds as both a handy supplement to the performance and a compelling coffee table book. The world premiere was held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1983, and audio recordings of the two-evening cycle were released as a 4-disc set. Since many of her fans, particularly new listeners discovering her work, don't have the opportunity to experience this opus as a live multimedia presentation, this book provides a way to see many of the images and ideas that originally corresponded with the sounds and music. There are photos and stills from the various pieces (in mostly B&W, with a few in color), and clip art, sketches and score notes. All of the words (both spoken and sung) are fully transcribed as well, making this an interesting anthology of lyrics, poems, stories, and ponderings. Not only is this book a welcome enhancement to a sitting with the live CD set, it functions as an inspiring work of print art, too. If you enjoy Laurie's stuff, especially her early '80s material, this is worth seeking out.

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Craig Rowland

Flip through the book while listening to the amazing 5-LP set.

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015

United States by Laurie Anderson is the book accompaniment to her mammoth performance art piece entitled "United States Live". Although I have known about the box set recording of this piece since it was first issued in 1984, I recently bought the five-LP collection and learned that it had a book version. The book is comprised of photos, drawings and slides from the multimedia piece. Most of the book's 231 pages are in black and white, and the picture quality is rather poor by being blurry and grainy, although this probably was Anderson's intent. Without prior knowledge of Anderson's performance piece the book is rather senseless, and even the audio version on five LPs is itself rather limiting in that the vital visual component of the show is absent.

The linguist in me liked the two bilingual pieces, in German and French, although I cringed at the minor mistakes found in both texts. I wonder if the errors found their way into the original show. ("Voices on Tape" omitted umlauts from several words and had some verbal inconsistencies.)

I have a CD of Anderson reading stories, The Ugly One with the Jewels, so I know the sound of her voice and delivery. I could thus "hear" her reading the following piece, "Dog Show":

I dreamed I was a dog in a dog show.
And my father came to the dog show.
And he said: That's a really good dog.
I like that dog.

And then all my friends came and I
was thinking:
No one has ever looked at me like this
for so long.
No one has ever stared at me like this
for so long
for such a long time
for so long.

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mine71

Artikelzustand: gut???

Reviewed in Germany on April 16, 2015

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Texte und Bilder der United States Box im Großformat.
Gegen den Inhalt des Buches gibt es nichts einzuwenden.
Gegen den Artikelzustand schon.
Das einzig gute an dem gelieferten Buch war, daß die Seiten nicht herausfielen.
Seiten geknickt, teilweise vergilbt, wellig.
Das Buch hatte mehr Ähnlichkeit mit einer alten Schwarte.
Da es aber das einzig erhältliche Exemplar war, habe ich es dennoch behalten.
Nun liegt es eingedrückt in einem Stapel schwerer Bücher..

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