Present Tense

Rock & Roll and Culture
Herausgeber: Decurtis, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This collection is a useful and provocative addition to rock literature. Its collage of forms--scholarship, journalism, interviews, and fiction--allows access to a variety of readers, and provides a diverse forum for addressing the current consciousness about rock."--Andrew Ross, Princeton University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822312659
• ISBN-10: 0822312654
• Artikelnr.: 22355423

Autorenporträt

Anthony DeCurtis, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
The Eighties / Anthony DeCurtis 1
The Church of the Sonic Guitar / Robert Palmer 13
The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s / Trent Hill 39
A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism /
Greil Marcus 73
Why Don't We Do It in the Classroom? / Glenn Gass 93
Playing for England / Paul Smith 101
Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice / David R. Shumway 117
Tracking / Robert B. Ray 135
Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson's Crisis of Meaning /
Mark Dery 149
Concerning the Progress of Rock & Roll / Michael Jarrett 167
Los Angeles, 1999 / Paul Evans 183
Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary / Martha
Nell Smith 197
About a Salary or Reality?- Rap's Recurrent Conflict / Alan Light 219
Voguing at the Carnival: Desire and Pleasure on MTV / Dan Rubey 235
Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock
& Roll Band / Jeff Calder 271
Index 303
Notes on Contributors 315