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Book Reports : A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading /
In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, Robert Christgau shows readers a different side to his esteemed career with reviews of books ranging from musical autobiographies, criticism, and histories to novels, literary memoirs, and cultural theory.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.