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This is rock criticism on the high slopes, brave, rigorous and endlessly well-read. The book's grand themes are sustained throughout and the authors are endlessly interesting, even about the... — More…
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Smith argues that [Motown's] immensely successful black-owned, Detroit-based corporation had an ambivalent attitude towards the changes brought about by Civil Rights campaigners in the 1960s:... — More…
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Rattling hatchback trunks and terrifying suburban parents, gangsta rap went harder and further than everything that preceded it. Suddenly, everyone was listening and the media wagons began to... — More…
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As Jack Hamilton makes clear in this exceptionally perceptive work, the most common way to talk about race in rock music is to not talk about it at all...Hamilton's text is bold, sophisticated,... — More…
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The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
- Author: Stephens, Randall J.
Stephens wants us to think of rock and Christianity not as enemies but as siblings engaged in a family dispute — More…
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Nagahara provides a well-documented study of how modern Japanese pop media developed a foundation in the masses that neither the government nor critics could control...Tokyo Boogie-Woogie stands... — More…
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There isn't a bland sentence or obligatory opinion in this book. Brittle, lyrical, funny, outraged and for all the untouched bases, remarkably whole, [In the Fascist Bathroom] has the feel of... — More…
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Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno
- Author: Christgau, Robert
Christgau is no toady, trusting in the strength of his own perceptions rather than in recycling quotations from the artist. True criticism is invariably contentious, and Christgau's aim is certainly... — More…
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Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience
- Author: Waksman, Steve
If you're fascinated by how the electric guitar became what it is, and by what it's told us at each stage in its development, then Waksman is as cool, erudite, provocative and non-geeky a guide... — More…
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Peter Jelavich has dismantled many legends about the politics of popular entertainments in his fine history, Berlin Cabaret. -- Anthony Grafton — More…
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