Book reports: a music critic on his first love, which was reading
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
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Book
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xiv, 398 pages ; 23 cm
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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. -- Publisher
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English
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9781478000112, 1478000112, 9781478000303, 1478000309
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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. -- Publisher
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Christgau, R. (2019). Book reports: a music critic on his first love, which was reading. Durham, Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Christgau, Robert. 2019. Book Reports: A Music Critic On His First Love, Which Was Reading. Durham, Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Christgau, Robert, Book Reports: A Music Critic On His First Love, Which Was Reading. Durham, Duke University Press, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Christgau, Robert. Book Reports: A Music Critic On His First Love, Which Was Reading. Durham, Duke University Press, 2019.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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