Browse: Duke University Press (publisher)

Anyone who knows their Afrobeat will tell you how pivotal the kit drummer Tony Allen was to the genre's development. Indeed, as . . . Michael Veal points out in this important, deftly crafted... — Jazzwise 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…

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…

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…

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…

[An exhaustive, often spellbinding account of the life of one of music's true maverick enigmas. . . . While the book provides many fresh insights into the 80s downtown hotbed, Russell emerges... — Record Collector 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…