Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Christgau, Robert (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Book reports [Texte imprimé] : a music critic on his first love, which was reading / Robert Christgau
Publication : Durham : Duke University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 398 pages)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Sujet(s) : Recensions de livres
Musique
Genre ou forme : Bibliographie critique
Indice(s) Dewey :
780.904 (23e éd.) = Musique - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781478002123. - ISBN 1478002123. - ISBN 9781478000112 (erroné). - ISBN 1478000112
(erroné). - ISBN 9781478000303 (erroné). - ISBN 1478000309 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46558500h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46558500
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
