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Book reports: a music critic on his first love, which was reading
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Duke University Press
Publication Date
2019.
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English
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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!
That bad man, tough old huddie ledbetter: Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell's the life and legend of leadbelly
The impenetrable heroism of Sam Cooke: Peter Guralnick's dream boogie
Bobby and dave: Bob Dylan's chronicles: volume one and Dave van Ronk's the mayor of Macdougal street
Tell all: Ed Sanders's fug you and Samuel R. Delany's the motion of light in water
King of the thrillseekers: Richard Hell's I dreamed i was a very clean tramp
Lives saved, lives lost: Carrie Brownstein's hunger makes me a modern girl and Patti Smith's m train
The cynic and the bloke: Rod Stewart's Rod: the autobiography and Donald Fagen's eminent hipsters
His own shaman: RJ Smith's the one
Spotlight on the queen: David Ritz's respect
The realest thing you've ever seen: Bruce Springsteen's born to run
Fictions
Writing for the people: George Orwell's 1984
A classic illustrated: R. Crumb's the book of genesis
The hippie grows older: Richard Brautigan's sombrero fallout
Comic GUrdjieffianism you can masturbate to: Marco Vassi's mind blower
Porn yesterday: Walter Kendrick's the secret museum
What pretentious white men are good for: Robert Coover's Gerald's party
Impoverished how, exactly? Roddy Doyle's the woman who walked into doors
Sustainable romance: Norman's Rush's mortals
Derring-do scraping by: Michael Chabon's telegraph avenue
Futures by the dozen: Bruce Sterling's holy fire
Ya poet of the massa woods: Sandra Newman's the country of ice cream star
A darker shade of noir: the indefatigable Walter Mosley
Bohemia meets hegemony
Épatant le bourgeoisie: Jerrold Seigel's bohemian Paris and T. J. Clark's the painting of modern life
The village people: Christine Stansell's American moderns
A slender hope for salvation: Charles Reich's the greening of America
The lumpenhippie guru: Ed Sanders's the family
Strait are the gates: Morris Dickstein's gates of Eden
The little counterculture that could: Carol Brightman's sweet chaos
The pop-boho connection, narrativized: Bernard F. Gendron's between Montmartre and the Mudd club
Cursed and sainted seekers of the sexual century: John Heidenry's what wild ecstasy
Bohemias lost and found: Ross Wetzsteon's republic of dreams, Richard Kostelanetz's Soho and Richard Lloyd's neo-bohemias
Autobiography of a pain in the neck: Meredith Maran's what it's like to live now
Culture meets capital
Twentieth century limited: Marshall Berman's all that is solid melts into air
Dialectical cricket: C. L. R. James's beyond a boundary
Radical pluralist: Andrew Ross's no respect
Inside the prosex wars: Nadine Strossen's defending pornography, Joanma Frueh's erotic
Faculties, and Laura Kipnis's bound and gagged
Growing up kept down: William Finnegan's cold new world
The secret fundamentalists: Jeff Sharlet's the family
Dark night of the quants: ten books about the financial crisis
They bet your life: four books about hedge funds
Living in a material world: Raymond Williams's long revolution
With a god on his side: Terry Eagleton's culture and the death of god, culture, and materialism
My friend Marshall: Marshall Berman's modernism in the streets.
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9781478000112
9781478000303
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