Eric WeisbardListen Again
A Momentary History of Pop Music
Herausgeber: Weisbard, Eric
Eric Weisbard is the organizer of the annual Experience Music Project Pop Conference. He was a curator and senior manager of the Experience Music Project from 2001 until 2005. Before that, he worked as an editor and contributing writer at Spin and The Village Voice. He is the author of Use Your Illusion I and II and the editor of This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project and the Spin Alternative Record Guide.
Introduction / Eric Wesibard 1
1. Whittling on Dynamite: The Difference Bert Williams Makes / W.T. Lhamon,
Jr. 7
2. Searching for the Blues: James McKune, Collectors, and a Different
Crossroads / Marybeth Hamilton 26
3. Abie the Fishman: On Masks, Birthmarks, and Hunchbacks / Josh Kun 50
4. The Kingsmen and the Cha-Cha-Cha / Ned Sublette 69
5. Ghoulardi: Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk / David Thomas
95
6. Magic Moments, the Ghost of Folk-Rock, and the Ring of E Major / David
Brackett 103
7. Mystery Girl: The Forgotten Artistry of Bobbie Gentry / Holly
George-Warren 120
8. “Is That All There Is?” and the Uses of Disenchantment / Franklin Bruno
137
9. Ghetto Brother Power: The Bronx Gangs, the Beatles, the Aguinaldo, and
Pre-history of Hip-Hop / Benjamin Melendez, as told to Henry Chalfant and
Jeff Chang 150
10. Grand Funk Live! Staging Rock in the Age of the Arena / Steve Waksman
157
11. The Sound of Velvet Melting: The Power of “Vibe” in the Music of
Roberta Flack / Jason King 172
12. All Roads Lead to “Apache” / Michaelangelo Matos 200
13. On Punk Rock and Not Being a Girl / Lavinia Greenlaw 210
14. The Buddy Holocaust Story: A Necromusicology / Eric Weisbard 219
15. ORCH5, or the Classical Ghost in the Hip-Hop Machine / Robert Fink 231
16. White Chocolate Soul: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor / Marc Anthony Neal
256
17. Dancing, Democracy, and Kitsch: Poland’s Disco Polo / Daphne Carr 272
18. How to Act Like Darby Crash / Drew Daniel 286
19. Death Letters / Greil Marcus 296
Acknowledgments 307
Contributors 309
Index 313
