Robert Christgau

Book Reports

A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Christgau wrote for and edited at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006 and currently contributes a weekly record column at Noisey. His books include Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967–2017, also published by Duke University Press, and Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000112
• ISBN-10: 1478000112
• Artikelnr.: 53490409

Autorenporträt

Robert Christgau

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
I. Collectibles
The Informer: John Leonard's When the Kissing Had to Stop  11
Advertisements for Everybody Else: Jonathan Lethem's The Ecstasy of
Influence  14
Democratic Vistas: Dave Hickey's Air Guitar  17
II. From Blackface Minstrelsy to Track-and-Hook
In Search of Jim Crow: Why Postmodern Minstrelsy Studies Matter  23
The Old Ethiopians at Home: Ken Emerson's Doo-Dah!  40
Before the Blues: David Wondrich's Stomp and Swerve  43
Rhythms of the Universe: Ned Sublette's Cuba and Its Music  46
Black Melting Pot: David B. Coplan's In Township Tonight!  49
Bwana-Acolyte in the Favor Bank: Banning Eyre's In Griot Time  56
In the Crucible of the Party: Charles and Angelilki Keil's Bright Balkan
Morning  59
Defining the Folk: Benjamin Filene's Romancing the Folk  64
Folking Around: David Hajdu's Positively 4th Street  67
Punk Lives: Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's Please Kill Me  70
Biography of a Corporation: Nelson George's Where Did Our Love Go?  72
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  75
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  80
Money Isn't Everything: Fred Goodman's The Mansion on the Hill  86
Mapping the Earworm's Genome: John Seabrook's The Song Machine  89
III. Critical Practice
Beyond the Symphonic Quest: Susan McClary's Feminine Endings  97
All the Tune Family: Peter van der Merwe's Origins of the Popular Style 
100
Bel Cantos: Henry Pleasant's The Great American Popular Singers  102
The Country and the City: Charlie Gillett's The Sound of the City  109
Reflections of an Aging Rock Critic: Jon Landau's It's Too Late to Stop Now
  115
Pioneer Days: Kevin Avery's Everything Is an Afterthought and Nona Willis
Aronowitz's (ed.) Out of the Vinyl Deeps  117
Impolite Discourse: Jim Derogatis's Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of
Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer's A Whore Jus Like the Rest, and Nick
Tosches's The Nick Torches Reader  123
Journalism and/or Criticism and/or Musicology and/or Sociology (and/or
Writing): Simon Firth  129
Serious Music: Robert Walser's Running With the Devil  137
Fifteen Minutes of . . . : William York's Who's Who in Rock Music  139
The Fanzine Worldview, Alphabetized: Ira A. Robbins's (ed.) Trouser Press
Guide to New Wave Records  140
Awesome: Simon Reynolds's Blissed Out  143
Ingenuousness Lost: James Miller's Flowers in the Dustbin  147
Rock Criticism Lives: Jessica Hopper's The Fist Collection of Criticism by
a Living Female Rock Critic  151
Emo Meets Trayvon Martin: Hanif Abdurraquib's They Can't Kill Us Until They
Kill Us  156
IV. Lives in Music Inside and Out
Great Book of Fire: Nick Tosches's Hellfire and Robert Palmer's Jerry Lee
Lewis Rocks!  163
That Bad Man, Tough Old Huddie Ledbetter: Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell's
The Life and Legend of Leadbelly  169
The Impenetrable Heroism of Sam Cooke: Peter Guralnick's Dream Boogie  171
Bobby and Dave: Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One and Dave Van Ronk's The
Mayor of MacDougal Street  178
Tell All: Ed Sanders's Fug You and Samuel R. Delany's The Motion of Light
in Water  180
King of the Thrillseekers: Richard Hell's I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean
Tramp  185
Lives Saved, Lives Lost: Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
and Patti Smith's M Train  189
The Cynic and the Bloke: Rod Stewart's Rod: The Autobiography and Donald
Fagen's Eminent Hipsters  194
His Own Shaman: RJ Smith's The One  199
Spotlight on the Queen: David Ritz's Respect  201
The Realist Thing You've Ever Seen: Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run  205
V. Fictions
Writing for the People: George Orwell's 1984  213
A Classic Illustrated: R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis  217
The Hippie Grows Older: Richard Brautigan's Sombrero Fallout  222
Comic Gurdjieffianism You Can Masturbate To: Marco Vassis' Mind Blower  224
Porn Yesterday: Walter Kendrick's The Secret Museum  225
What Pretentious White Men Are Good For: Robert Coover's Gerald's Party 
230
Impoverished How, Exactly? Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked into Doors 
236
Sustainable Romance: Norman Rush's Mortals  237
Derrnig-Do Scrapping By: Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue  240
Futures by the Dozen: Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire  245
YA Poet of the Massa Woods: Sandra Newman's The Country of Ice Cream Star 
248
A Darker Shade of Noir: The Indefatigable Walter Mosley  252
VI. Bohemia Meets Hegemony
Épatant le Bourgeoisie: Jerrold Seigel's Bohemian Paris and T. J. Clark's
The Painting of Modern Life  263
The Village People: Christine Stansell's American Moderns  278
A Slender Hope for Salvation: Charles Reich's The Greening of America  280
The Lumpenhippie Guru: Ed Sanders's The Family  285
Strait Are the Gates: Morris Dickstein's Gates of Eden  289
The Little Counterculture That Could: Carol Brightman's Sweet Chaos  293
The Pop-Boho Connection, Narrativized: Bernard F. Gendron's Between
Montmarte and the Mudd Club  297
Cursed and Sainted Seekers of the Sexual Century: John Heidenry's What Wild
Ecstasy  301
Bohemias Lost and Found: Ross Wetzsteon's Republic of Dreams, Richard
Kostelanetz's SoHo, and Richard Lloyd's Neo-Bohemia  304
Autobiography of a Pain in the Neck: Meredith Maran's What It's Like to
Live Now  309
VII. Culture Meets Capital
Twentieth Century Limited: Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid Melts into
Air  315
Dialectical Cricket: C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary  320
Radical Pluralist: Andrew Ross's No Respect  323
Inside the Prosex Wars: Nadine Strossen's Defending Pornography, Joanna
Frueh's Eroctic Faculties, and Lara Kipnis's Bound and Gagged  327
Growing Up Kept Down: William Finnegan's Cold New World  331
Jesus Plus the Capitalist Order: Jeff Sharlet's The Family  334
Dark Night of the Quants: Ten Books About the Financial Crisis  338
They Bet Your Life: Four Books About Hedge Funds  345
Living in a Material World: Raymond Williams's Long Revolution  350
With a God on His Side: Terry Eagleton's Culture and the Death of God,
Culture, and Materialism  369
My Friend Marshall: Marshall Berman's Modernism in the Streets  374
Index  381