OC Cloud CultOCOs grand, unkempt indie rock is at once jam band, emo, and avant-garde. Their songs, born out of personal tragedy, are otherworldly lessons in being human.OCO OCoPitchfork During the past decade, Minnesota-grown band Cloud Cult has become one of the most inspirational indie bands, with a deeply devoted fan base and an approach to music and the environment that is hard not to admire. Beyond a musical biography, Chasing the Light tells the story of the heartbreaking yet affirming journey of lead singer and songwriter Craig Minowa and delves into the career of the band known by music lovers as the least cynical and most idealistic band in the country. Tracing Cloud CultOCOs rise to critical acclaim, author Mark Allister details the bandOCOs defining moments, beginning with the death of Craig and Connie MinowaOCOs two-year-old son and the hundreds of songs that grew out of the tragic loss. Allister describes the bandOCOs unique philosophy and principles, including how Minowa created a zero carbon footprint for the bandOCOs recording and touring, adopting DIY and green-sustainable practices well before the ideas became mainstream. Allister also presents a first-person account of a day in the life of a quintessential indie band and conveys the immense emotional impact of Cloud CultOCOs albums and live shows. Described by a fan in the book as OC the anthem for the soul searcher in us all, OCO Cloud CultOCOs music and message are both stirring and sincere. Featuring rarely seen photos from Cloud CultOCOs history and passionate testimonials by fans, Chasing the Light is a testament to the profound influence one bandOCOs personal evolution can have on its followers and on indie rock aficionados in search of beauty, meaning, and redemption.
Allister (English, St. Olaf College) examines works by six authors which fuse autobiography, literary nonfiction, and environmental literature into a distinct form of "grief narrative." Each of these authors "... begins in depression that shadows grief; each comes to put an end to depression, to move through mourning, by turning observations and stories of the external world into a narrative that heals." The six works featured are Sue Hubbell's A Country Year, Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Bill Barich's Laughing in the Hills, William Least Heat-Moons' Blue Highways, Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, and Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This study brings together the genres of autobiography and environmental literature. It examines a form of grief narrative in which writers deal with mourning by standing outside the text in writing about the natural world, and inside it in making that exposition part of the grieving process.
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