Collectibles -- The informer: John Leonard's when the kissing had to stop -- Advertisements for everybody else: Jonathan Lethem's the ecstasy of influence -- Democratic vistas: Dave Hickey's air guitar -- From blackface minstrelsy to track-and-hook -- In search of Jim Crow: why postmo...

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1. Verfasser:	Christgau, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Durham Duke University Press 2019
Schlagworte:	Music / History and criticism / 20th century Music / Book reviews / 20th century Musical criticism Rockmusik Musikkritik Kulturkritik Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	Collectibles -- The informer: John Leonard's when the kissing had to stop -- Advertisements for everybody else: Jonathan Lethem's the ecstasy of influence -- Democratic vistas: Dave Hickey's air guitar -- From blackface minstrelsy to track-and-hook -- In search of Jim Crow: why postmodern minstrelsy studies matter -- The old ethiopians at home: Ken Emerson's doo-dah! -- Before the blues: David Wondrich's stomp and swerve -- Rhythms of the universe: Ned Sublette's Cuba and its music -- Black melting pot: David B. Coplan's in township tonight! -- Bwana-acolyte in the favor bank: Banning Eyre's in griot time -- In the crucible of the party: Charles Keil et al. Bright Balkan morning -- Defining the folk: Benjamin Filene's romancing the folk -- Folking around: David Hajdu's positively 4th street -- Punk lives: Legs Mcneil and Gillian Mccain's please kill me -- Biography of a corporation: Nelson George's where did our love go? -- Hip-hop faces the world: Steven Hager's hip hop; David Toop's the rap attack; and Nelson George, Sally Banes, Susan Flinker, and Patty Romanowski's fresh -- Making out like gangsters: Preston Lauterbach's the chitlin circuit, Dan Charnas's the big -- Payback, ice-t's ice, and Tommy James's me, the mob, and music -- Money isn't everything: Fred Goodman's the mansion on the hill -- Mapping the earworm's genome: John Seabrook's the song machine -- Critical practice -- Beyond the symphonic quest: Susan Mcclary's feminine endings -- All in the tune family: Peter van Der Merwe's origins of the popular style -- Bel cantos: Henry Pleasants's the great American popular singers -- The country and the city: Charlie Gillett's the sound of the city -- Reflections of an aging rock critic: Jon Landau's it's too late to stop now -- Pioneer days: Kevin Avery's everything is an afterthought and Nona Willis Aronowitz's (ed.) -- Out of the vinyl deeps -- Impolite discourse: Jim Derogatis's let it blurt: the life and times of Lester Bangs -- America's greatest rock critic, Richard Meltzer's a whore jus like the rest, and Nick Tosches's. The Nick Tosches reader -- Journalism and/or criticism and/or musicology and/or sociology (and/or writing): Simon Frith -- Serious music: Robert Walser's running with the devil -- Minutes of . . . : William York's who's who in rock music -- The fanzine worldview, alphabetized: Ira A. Robbins's trouser press guide to new wave records -- Awesome: Simon Reynolds's blissed out -- Ingenuousness lost: James Miller's flowers in the dustbin -- Rock criticism lives: Jessica Hopper's the first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic -- Emo meets Trayvon Martin: Hanif Abdurraqib's they can't kill us until they kill us -- Lives in music inside and out -- Great book of fire: Nick Tosches's hellfire and Robert Palme's Jerry Lee Lewis rocks! --
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 398 pages)
ISBN:	9781478002123 1478002123