The Music Never Died

Tales from the Flipside

Mark Swartz, Jeb Loy Nichols

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Big Nickel Publications
08 January 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Sixteen irreverent and inventive fictions that riff on rock and rap mythology to envisage alternate paths for music legends who died young.

What if Biggie Smalls had survived the assassin's bullets and reinvented hip-hop with the help of an avant-garde luminary? If Amy Winehouse had shaken off her demons and channeled her inner Barbra Streisand into a new life on a tropical island? If Jeff Buckley had been pulled alive from the Mississippi by a devilish hand and become a pioneer of Southern black metal?

With accompanying illustrations by Jeb Loy Nichols, Mark Swartz's stories imagine what might have happened to these stars and more-including Jimi Hendrix, Gram Parsons, Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye, Lhasa de Sela, Lil Peep, and Jim Morrison-if their untimely deaths had been averted, or somehow had not been the end of their lives. Booklist praised Mark Swartz's fiction for its ""lithe satirical humor, impressive intellectual dimension, and sly provocation,"" and these qualities are on full display in these at once heartfelt and borderline absurd tales.

By: Mark Swartz
Illustrated by: Jeb Loy Nichols
Imprint: Big Nickel Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9781959163053
ISBN 10: 1959163051
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 08 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Swartz is the author of three novels: Instant Karma, H2O, and Summertime Jews. He has also written children's books and reports on education. Originally from Chicago, Swartz lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. Jeb Loy Nichols is a musician, author, and artist. Born in Wyoming, he lives in Wales.

Reviews for The Music Never Died: Tales from the Flipside

"""Swartz writes, I read!""--Ed Park ""Mark Swartz's phantasmagorical cultural wit joins The Music Never Died to the tradition of Lester Bangs, Steve Erickson, and Lewis Shiner, in excavating gold from fannish what-ifs, and flashing us our musical talismans back at us in a funhouse mirror."" --Jonathan Lethem ""A music-lover's fever dream, The Music Never Died weaves surprising afterlives and alternate endings for some well-known artists in tart, imaginative prose. Anyone who has ached over the untimely demise of Marvin Gaye, Aaliyah, or Amy Winehouse will appreciate Mark Swartz's exploration of their interior lives and experiences, revealing potentialities obscured by all-too-real death.""--Laura Cantrell"