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Rock music -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Music journalists -- United States -- Essays.
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Rock music -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Music journalists -- United States -- Essays.
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Shake
it
up
:
great
American
writing
on
rock
and
pop
from
Elvis
to
Jay
Z
/ edited by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar.
Library of America, 2017.
Call #:
781.6609 S527
Subjects
Rock
music -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Music journalists -- United States -- Essays.
ISBN:
9781598535310 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 601 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"A Library of America special publication"--Title page.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar -- The freewheelin' Bob Dylan / Nat Hentoff -- The changing same (R&B and new Black music) (excerpt) / Amiri Baraka -- Learning from the Beatles / Richard Poirier -- Goodbye surfing, hello God! / Jules Siegel -- Master of mediocrity / Richard Goldstein -- Outlaw blues / Paul Williams -- The Memphis soul sound / Stanley Booth -- Lillian Roxon's
rock
encyclopedia (excerpt) / Lillian Roxon -- The best of acappella / Lenny Kaye -- The aesthetics of
rock
(excerpt) / Richard Meltzer -- Inside the cages of the zoo / Ellen Sander -- The disco files (excerpt) / Vince Aletti -- Valley of the New York Dolls / Paul Nelson -- Where were you when
Elvis
died? / Lester Bangs -- In defense of
rock
theory / Greg Shaw -- Prince / Robert Christgau -- The Cars' power steering / Jon Pareles -- Janis Joplin / Ellen Willis -- The Slits go native / Carola Dibbell -- David Bowe eats his young / Debra Rae Cohen -- Hellfire (excerpt) / Nick Tosches -- Boys' night out : Aztec camera clicks / Ariel Swartley -- The power and the glory / Nelson George -- King Solomon : the throne in exile / Peter Guralnick -- Sylvia's husband / Donna Gaines -- The heart of
rock
& soul : the 1001 greatest singles ever made (excerpt) / Dave Marsh -- The Ramones / Chuck Eddy -- Jim Morrison is dead and living in Hollywood / Eve Babitz -- Route 666 (excerpt) / Gina Arnold -- Houses of the holy / Ann Powers -- Sam Cooke's Night Beat / Robert Palmer -- One nation under a groove (excerpt) / Gerald Early -- Bruce Springsteen : born to run / Ed Ward -- Total systems failure / Camden Joy -- Fargo
Rock
City (excerpt) / Chuck Klosterman -- Seven years in the life / Geoffrey O'Brien -- O.P.D. ; Deus Est Vivus : The Beatles and The Death Cults (excerpt) / Devin McKinney -- Emo : where the girls aren't / Jessica Hopper -- Live at the Apollo (excerpt) / Douglas Wolk -- Ray Charles / David Hajdu -- I is somebody else / Luc Sante -- The final comeback of Axl Rose / John Jeremiah Smith -- In praise of assholes / Greg Tate -- Say you want a revolution... / Elijah Wald -- Michael / Hilton Als -- The Runaways : wild thing / Evelyn McDonnell -- Word :
Jay
Z
's Decoded and the language of hip-hop / Kelefa Sanneh -- Love and hope and sex and dreams : punk
rock
, disco, New York City & the triumph of the Rolling Stones' Some Girls / Anthony DeCurtis -- After 30 years, I finally went to a Barry Manilow concert / Danyel Smith -- Guitar drag / Greil Marcus -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary:
"The tumult and excitement of the
rock
revolution examined through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on
rock
in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince Aletti on disco and Gerald Early on Motown; Robert Christgau on Prince, Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Luc Sante on Bob Dylan, Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, Anthony DeCurtis on the Rolling Stones, Kelefa Sanneh on
Jay
Z
. The story this anthology tells is a ongoing one: "it's too early," editors Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar note, "for canon formation in a field so marvelously volatile--a volatility that mirrors, still, that of
pop
music itself, which remains smokestack lightning. The
writing
here attempts to catch some in a bottle."--Provided by publisher.
Other authors:
Lethem, Jonathan.
Dettmar, Kevin J. H., 1958-
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