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Popular music -- History and criticism.
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Hornby, Nick.
Hornby, Nick.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
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Songbook
/ Nick Hornby.
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Hornby, Nick.
Riverhead Books, c2003.
Call #:
782.42164 H814s
Subjects
Hornby, Nick.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9781573223560 (pbk)
Edition:
1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Description:
xv, 206 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, 2002.
Bibliography:
Discography p. [201]-206.
Contents:
Song essays: Your love is the place where I come from / Teenage Fanclub -- Thunder road / Bruce Springsteen -- I'm like a bird / Nelly Furtado -- Heartbreaker / Led Zeppelin -- One man guy / Rufus Wainwright -- Samba pa ti / Santana -- Mama, you been on my mind / Rod Stewart -- Can you please crawl out your window / Bob Dylan -- Rain / The Beatles -- You had time / Ani DiFranco -- I've had it / Aimee Mann -- Born for me / Paul Westerberg -- Frankie Teardrop / Suicide -- Ain't that enough / Teenage Fanclub -- First I look at the purse / J. Geils Band -- Smoke / Ben Folds Five -- A minor incident / Badly drawn boy -- 505 0 Glorybound / The Bible -- Caravan / Van Morrison -- So I'll run / Butch Hancock and Marce LaCouture -- Puff the magic dragon / Gregory Isaacs -- Reasons to be cheerful, part 3 / Ian Dury and the Blackheads -- Calvary cross / Richard and Linda Thompson -- Late for the sky / Jackson Browne - Hey self-defeater / Mark Mulcahy -- Needle in a haystack / The Velvelettes -- Let's straighten it out / O.V. Wright -- Röyskopp's night out / Röyskopp -- Frontier psychiatrist / The Avalanches -- No fun/ push it / Soulwax -- Pissing in a river / Patti Smith. Album essays: It's a Mann's world -- Alternative Earle -- Sweet mistery -- Entertainers -- Pop quiz.
Summary:
"Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin...
Songbook
is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it so much, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives -- all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape."--Publisher.
Genre:
Music criticism and reviews.
Essays.
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1
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Dartmouth North Public Library
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782.42164 H814s
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