| Edition |
1st Da Capo Press ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 337 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The trouble with indie rock : it's not just race, it's class / Carl Wilson -- Annuals : a North Carolina band navigates the ephemeral blogosphere / Bill Wasik -- Sex, drugs and updating your blog / Clive Thompson -- Soulja Boy : cranking the chain / Jeff Weiss -- Keyshia Cole : Hell's angel / Danyel Smith -- Underrated overground : give contemporary R&B a chance / Noah Berlatsky -- First person : auditioning for this season's American Idol / Solvej Schou -- Wizards in the studio, anonymous on the streets / Ben Sisario -- Wu-Tang : widdling down infinity / Brandon Perkins -- Freaks come out at night : Grandmaster Dee cuts a wide swath on the comeback trail / Jonathan Cunningham -- Pay 2 Play : hip-hop hustlers are making off with Kansas City rappers' hard-earned cash / Nadia Pflaum -- It's time to kick this addiction / Ann Powers -- Bad habits : Nunzilla's punk-rock catechism will leave you praying for more / Niki D'Andrea -- Dimmu Borgir / J. Bennett -- "We sing everything, we have nothing else" / Eric Pape -- The return of real funk & soul music : Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings / Andy Tenille -- Gayest. Music. Ever. : the death of Circuit, Energy 92.7 FM, and the new queer dance floor diaspora / Marke B. -- Pete Seeger / Phil Sutcliffe -- The people's singer : the embattled Lee Hays / Jeff Sharlet -- Band on the Run in New Orleans / Larry Blumenfeld -- Sly Stone's higher power / David Kamp -- Beast from the East : Mandrill's Musical Brew is equal parts Brooklyn and Motherland / Matt Rogers -- Boogaloo nights / Oliver Wang -- Fever pitch : when Travolta did disco; the making of Saturday Night Fever / Sam Kashner -- Dead man talking : "Kurt Cobain: About a son": a new experimental documentary lets Kurt Cobain deliver his own eulogy / Sean Nelson -- A pirate looks at 60 : Jimmy Buffett's mid-life crises / Jody Rosen -- The wonder years : The Notorious B.I.G. / Alan Light -- Apparition in the woods : rescuing Sibelius from silence / Alex Ross -- Back to Bossa : Rosa Passos and fifty years of Bossa Nova / Gary Giddins -- The day Louis Armstrong made noise / David Margolick -- On Lynyrd Skynyrd and the white trash thing ; Around the bend ; Ten years / Craven Rock -- The history book on the shelf / Tom Ewing. |
| Summary |
The year's finest writing on rock, hip-hop, jazz, pop, country and more. |
| Subject |
Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Popular music -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Country music -- History and criticism.
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Country music. |
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Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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Rock music -- History and criticism.
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Rock music. |
| Added Author |
Carr, Daphne.
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George, Nelson.
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| ISBN |
9780306817342 |
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0306817349 |
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