Eric WeisbardListen Again
A Momentary History of Pop Music
Herausgeber: Weisbard, Eric
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
