Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to Nas (review)
A review for Taylor and Fancis’ Popular Music and Society of Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to Nas (2023), written by Alex Coles, published by Reaktion Books as part of their Reverb series.
...the unspoken thesis of Crooner could be described as something like the hauntology of Frank Sinatra. This is starkly clear in the conclusion of Crooner where a surreal vision of a reanimated, zombie-style Sinatra mash-up album titled Far from Me is dreamed up by Coles.
