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Is it still good to ya? : fifty years of rock criticism, 1967-2017 /
Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America's most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it's sometimes simple or silly. While compiling historical o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ten-step program for growing better ears
- Dionysus in theory and practice
- B.E.: a dozen moments in the prehistory of rock and roll
- Let's get busy in Hawaiian: a hundred years of ragged beats and cheap tunes
- Rock lyrics are poetry (maybe)
- "We have to deal with it": punk England report
- Rock 'n' roller coaster: the music biz on a joyride
- Not my fault, not my problem: classic rock
- A weekend in paradise: Woodstock '94
- Staying alive: postclassic disco
- Afternoon of the roar: Lollapalooza '95
- Harry Smith makes history: Anthology of American folk music
- Getting their hands dirty: Michael Azerrad's Our band could be your life
- A month on the town
- U.S. and them: are American pop (and semi-pop) still exceptional? and by the way, does that make them better?
- What I listen for in music
- Pops as pop: Louis Armstrong
- Not so misterioso: Thelonious Monk
- First lady : Billie Holiday
- Folksinger, wordslinger, start me a song: Woody Guthrie
- Caring the hard way: Frank Sinatra: 1915-1998
- Ringing like a bell: Chuck Berry: 1926-2017
- Unnaturals: the coasters with no strings attached
- Black Elvis: Sam Cooke
- Tough love: Etta James
- The excitement! the terror!: Miles Davis's '70s
- Sister, oh sister: Kate and Anna McGarrigle
- Two pieces about the Ramones: Ramone. Road to ruin
- Nevermore: Nirvana
- A long short story: the Go-Betweens
- Generation gaps: the Spice Girls
- Ooh, that sound: the Backstreet Boys
- Tear the sky off the mother: 'N Sync
- The world is his boudoir: Prince
- Two pieces about Aretha Franklin: Queen of pop. Familiar and fabulous
- Two pieces about Bob Dylan: Dylan back: world goes on. Secrets of the sphinx
- Ain't dead yet: Holy Modal Rounders
- How to survive on an apple pie diet: John Prine
- The unflashiest: Willie Nelson
- Music from a desert storm
- Ghost dance
- The Moldy Peaches slip you a roofie
- Attack of the chickenshits: Steve Earle
- Facing Mecca: Youssou N'dour
- Three pieces about M.I.A.: Burning bright. Quotations from Charmin M.I.A. Right, the record
- Full immersion with suspect tendencies: Paul Simon's Graceland
- Fela and his lessers
- Vendant l'Afrique
- Dakar in gear
- A god after midnight: Youssou N'dour
- Franco de mi amor
- Years of history, thirty seconds of joy
- Tribulations of St. Joseph: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Music from a desert war
- Growing by degrees: Kanye West
- The slim shady essay: Eminem
- Career opportunity: the Perceptionists
- Good morning, little school girl: R. Kelly
- Master and sacrament: Buddy Guy
- The commoner queen: Mary J. Blige
- A hot little weirdo: Shakira
- What's not to like?: Norah Jones
- No hope radio: Radiohead
- Rather exhilarating: Sonic Youth
- Adult contemporary: Grant Mclennan: 1958-2006
- Titan. Polymath. Naturalist.: Ray Charles: 1930-2004
- He got us: James Brown: 1933-2006
- Old master: Bob Dylan
- Estudando Tom Zé
- Gypsy is his autopilot: Gogol Bordello
- Triumph of the id: Lil Wayne
- Brag like that: Jay-Z
- Paisley's progress: Brad Paisley
- Smart and smarter: Vampire Weekend
- The many reasons to love Wussy
- Hearing her pain: Fiona Apple
- Firestarter: Miranda Lambert
- Monster anthems: Lady Gaga
- Dancing on her own: Robyn
- Three more pieces about M.I.A.: Spread out, reach high: M.I.A.'s Kala. Illygirl stepping up. Spelled backwards it's "AIM"
- The unassumingest: Lori Mckenna
- Who knows it feels it: Bob Marley
- Shape shifter: David Bowie: 1947-2016
- The most gifted artist of the rock era: Prince: 1958-2016
- Forever old: Leonard Cohen: 1933-2016
- Don't worry about nothing: Ornette Coleman
- Sticking it in their ear: Bob Dylan
- Sensualistic, polytheistic: New York Dolls.