Duke University Press

[Readers] will be more than rewarded by the insight it offers into the social aesthetics of improvisation, issues you will no longer be able to ignore as you listen to your next improv recording... — Musicworks More…

Primarily, in the beginning, this is a discourse on-and through-rhythm, on what it means to pause and to repeat, on all t he many shades of the same and its other, of noise and silence. That... — The Wire More…

In this fascinating discursive journey, Clover discusses Boston-area car culture's impact on the lyrics and music of 'Roadrunner' and other road and highway songs; he also laments social changes... — Library Journal More…

A rare gem. . . . this meticulously researched book is a key entry in the ongoing record-correction of 20th-century popular music history, one that recenters women, and most crucially, women... — Pitchfork More…

[A] vital statement about the infinitely nuanced nature of cultural exchange between Africa and America, and how our fullest understanding of jazz history might be furthered by enquiries like... — Jazzwise More…

This collection of thought-provoking essays is as much about inclusion, looking at jazz as a genre relevant to all, as it is futurism. Evolved from the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, the publication... — Jazzwise More…

Christgau is . . . one of America's sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential-not to mention one of the better stylists in that cohort.... — The New Yorker More…

As a writer and thinker, Raymond Knapp is a congenial musicologist-eschewing the obscurities of hard theoretical labor and preferring colorful insights. Highly recommended." -- M. Dineen — Choice More…

One reads Christgau for Christgau as much as for the subject of his work." -- Jeff Tamarkin — MOJO More…