Best Music Writing 2011
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Baker & Taylor
Presents a collection of essays written in 2011 about music and its culture covering such music styles as rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, and country and featuring such authors as Jason Cherkis, Jessica Hopper, Chet Flippo, and James Wood.
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Presents a collection of essays written in 2011 about music and its culture covering such music styles as rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, and country and featuring such authors as Jason Cherkis, Jessica Hopper, Chet Flippo, and James Wood.
Perseus Publishing
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Baker & Taylor
Presents a collection of essays written in 2011 about music and its culture covering such music styles as rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, and country and featuring such authors as Jason Cherkis, Jessica Hopper, Chet Flippo, and James Wood.
Perseus Publishing
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Music critic and author Ross collects the best essays, profiles, interviews, news articles, and blogs on music in 2011 by writers, journalists, and musicians such as Ann Powers, Sasha Frere-Jones, Nate Chinen, Nancy Griffin, and Joe Hagan. They discuss topics including Beethoven, Wagner, Duke Ellington, country music, metal, Lady Gaga, Will.i.am, gender and sexuality, Afrika Bambaataa, comparisons between Jay-Z and Stephen Sondheim, Nina Simone, Sandy West of the Runaways, and Michael Jackson's "Thriller." There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Presents a collection of essays written in 2011 about music and its culture covering such music styles as rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, and country and featuring such authors as Jason Cherkis, Jessica Hopper, Chet Flippo, and James Wood.
Perseus Publishing
Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort?novelists, poets, journalists, musicians? are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.
Twelfth in the acclaimed series of annual collections celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and more
Book News
Music critic and author Ross collects the best essays, profiles, interviews, news articles, and blogs on music in 2011 by writers, journalists, and musicians such as Ann Powers, Sasha Frere-Jones, Nate Chinen, Nancy Griffin, and Joe Hagan. They discuss topics including Beethoven, Wagner, Duke Ellington, country music, metal, Lady Gaga, Will.i.am, gender and sexuality, Afrika Bambaataa, comparisons between Jay-Z and Stephen Sondheim, Nina Simone, Sandy West of the Runaways, and Michael Jackson's "Thriller." There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Imprint:
Cambridge, MA - Da Capo Press
Pages:
311
Edition:
1st Da Capo Press ed
ISBN:
9780306819636, 0306819635
Language:
English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Beethoven's kapow / Justin Davidson -- Keep tickin and tockin work it all around the clock / Jonathan Bogart -- The grandest duke / Geoffrey O'Brien -- Growing up gaga / Vanessa Grigoriadis -- The mothership. lost in space / Chris Richards -- Except from How to wreck a nice beach: the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop / Dave Tompkins -- Curiosity slowdown / Jace Clayton -- Meet your #operaplot 2010 winners / Marcia Adair with ... [et al.] -- A pop critic takes on the ring: part 1, Das Rheingold -- Word / Kelefa Sanneh -- Why we fight #5: why risks are risky / Nitsuh Abebe -- Tour diary day four: rock and roll is dead / Amy Klein -- Jetlagged manifesto / Jeremy Denk -- Maing pop for capitalist pigs / Jessica Hopper -- The underground rises / Morad Mansouri -- Pantha du Prince / Philip Sherburne -- Wormrot, defeatist, mutant supremacy, Psychic limb and curandera - Octorber 3rd- The acheron, Brooklyn / Mike Turbe -- Giant steps: the survival of a great jazz pianist / David Hajdu -- Will, i.am and the science of global pop domination / Chris Norris -- Notes from a wedding / Lauren WIlcox Puchowski -- For the record / Jason Cherkis -- The curious case of Nicki Minaj / Caryn Ganz -- Gasping, but somehow still alive: the persistence of meat is murder / Drew Daniel -- Nashville Skyline: searching for the heart of country / Chet Flippo -- The honeymooners / Franklin Bruno -- The long war / Sasha Frere-Jones -- The thriller diaries / Nancy Grinffin -- The runaways: wild thing / Evelyn McDonnell -- The fun stuff / James Wood -- Direction nowhere / Nate Chinen -- I wish I knew how it would feel to be free / Joe Hagan -- Darkness invisible / Wendy Lesser
Beethoven's kapow / Justin Davidson -- Keep tickin and tockin work it all around the clock / Jonathan Bogart -- The grandest duke / Geoffrey O'Brien -- Growing up gaga / Vanessa Grigoriadis -- The mothership. lost in space / Chris Richards -- Except from How to wreck a nice beach: the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop / Dave Tompkins -- Curiosity slowdown / Jace Clayton -- Meet your #operaplot 2010 winners / Marcia Adair with ... [et al.] -- A pop critic takes on the ring: part 1, Das Rheingold -- Word / Kelefa Sanneh -- Why we fight #5: why risks are risky / Nitsuh Abebe -- Tour diary day four: rock and roll is dead / Amy Klein -- Jetlagged manifesto / Jeremy Denk -- Maing pop for capitalist pigs / Jessica Hopper -- The underground rises / Morad Mansouri -- Pantha du Prince / Philip Sherburne -- Wormrot, defeatist, mutant supremacy, Psychic limb and curandera - Octorber 3rd- The acheron, Brooklyn / Mike Turbe -- Giant steps: the survival of a great jazz pianist / David Hajdu -- Will, i.am and the science of global pop domination / Chris Norris -- Notes from a wedding / Lauren WIlcox Puchowski -- For the record / Jason Cherkis -- The curious case of Nicki Minaj / Caryn Ganz -- Gasping, but somehow still alive: the persistence of meat is murder / Drew Daniel -- Nashville Skyline: searching for the heart of country / Chet Flippo -- The honeymooners / Franklin Bruno -- The long war / Sasha Frere-Jones -- The thriller diaries / Nancy Grinffin -- The runaways: wild thing / Evelyn McDonnell -- The fun stuff / James Wood -- Direction nowhere / Nate Chinen -- I wish I knew how it would feel to be free / Joe Hagan -- Darkness invisible / Wendy Lesser
Statement of responsibility:
Alex Ross, guest editor ; Daphne Carr, series editor
Characteristics:
xix, 311 p. ;,21 cm.
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