I.
Collectibles.
The informer : John Leonard's When the kissing had to stop
Advertisements for everybody else : Jonathan Lethem's The ecstasy of influence
Democratic vistas : Dave Hickey's Air guitar
In the crucible of the party : Charles Keil et al. Bright Balkan morning
Defining the folk : Benjamin Filene's Romancing the folk
Folking around : David Hajdu's Positively 4th Street
Punk lives : Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's Please kill me
Biography of a corporation : Nelson George's Where did our love go?
Hip-hop faces the world : Steven Hager's Hip hop, David Toop's The rap attack, and Nelson George, Sally Banes, Susan Flinker, and Patty Romanowski's Fresh
Making out like gangsters : Preston Lauterbach's The chitlin circuit, Dan Charnas's The big
Payback, Ice-T's Ice, and Tommy James's Me, the mob, and music
Money isn't everything : Fred Goodman's The mansion on the hill
Mapping the earworm's genome : John Seabrook's The song machine
II.
From blackface minstrelsy to track-and-hook.
In search of Jim Crow : why postmodern minstrelsy studies matter
The old Ethiopians at home : Ken Emerson's Doo-dah!
Before the blues : David Wondrich's Stomp and swerve
Rhythms of the universe : Ned Sublette's Cuba and its music
Black melting pot : David B. Coplan's In Township tonight!
Bwana-acolyte in the favor bank : Banning Eyre's in griot time
Impolite discourse : Jim Derogatis's Let it blurt : The life and times of Lester Bangs
America's greatest rock critic, Richard Meltzer's A whore just like the rest, and Nick Tosches's The Nick Tosches reader
Journalism and/or criticism and/or musicology and/or sociology (and/or writing) : Simon Frith
Serious music : Robert Walser's running with the devil
Minutes of... : William York's Who's who in rock music
The fanzine worldview, alphabetized : Ira A. Robbins's Trouser press guide to New Wave Records
Awesome : Simon Reynolds's Blissed out
Ingenuousness lost : James Miller's Flowers in the dustbin
Rock criticism lives : Jessica Hopper's The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic
Emo meets Trayvon Martin : Hanif Abdurraqib's They can't kill us until they kill us
III.
Critical practice.
Beyond the symphonic quest : Susan Mcclary's Feminine endings
All in the tune family : Peter van Der Merwe's Origins of the popular style
Bel cantos : Henry Pleasants's The great American popular singers
The country and the city : Charlie Gillett's The sound of the city
Reflections of an aging rock critic : Jon Landau's It's too late to stop now
Pioneer days : Kevin Avery's Everything is an afterthought and Nona Willis Aronowitz's (ed.) Out of the vinyl deeps
Lives saved, lives lost : Carrie Brownstein's Hunger makes me a modern girl and Patti Smith's M Train
The cynic and the bloke : Rod Stewart's Rod : the autobiography and Donald Fagen's Eminent hipsters
His own shaman : RJ Smith's The one
Spotlight on the queen : David Ritz's Respect
The realest thing you've ever seen : Bruce Springsteen's Born to run
IV.
Lives in music inside and out.
Great book of fire : Nick Tosches's Hellfire and Robert Palme's Jerry Lee Lewis rocks!
That bad man, tough old Huddie Ledbetter : Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell's The life and legend of Leadbelly
The impenetrable heroism of Sam Cooke : Peter Guralnick's Dream boogie
Bobby and Dave : Bob Dylan's Chronicles : volume one and Dave van Ronk's The mayor of Macdougal street
Tell all : Ed Sanders's Fug you and Samuel R. Delany's The motion of light in water
King of the thrillseekers : Richard Hell's I dreamed I was a very clean tramp
Impoverished how, exactly? : Roddy Doyle's The woman who walked into doors
Sustainable romance : Norman's Rush's Mortals
Derring-do scraping by : Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue
Futures by the dozen : Bruce Sterling's Holy fire
Ya poet of the massa woods : Sandra Newman's The country of ice cream star
A darker shade of noir : the indefatigable Walter Mosley
V.
Fictions.
Writing for the people : George Orwell's 1984
A classic illustrated : R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis
The hippie grows older : Richard Brautigan's Sombrero fallout
Comic Gurdjieffianism you can masturbate to : Marco Vassi's Mind blower
Porn yesterday : Walter Kendrick's The secret museum
What pretentious white men are good for : Robert Coover's Gerald's party
The pop-boho connection, narrativized : Bernard F. Gendron's Between Montmartre and the Mudd club
Cursed and sainted seekers of the sexual century : John Heidenry's What wild ecstasy
Bohemias lost and found : Ross Wetzsteon's Republic of dreams, Richard Kostelanetz's Soho and Richard Lloyd's Neo-Bohemias
Autobiography of a pain in the neck : Meredith Maran's What it's like to live now
VI.
Bohemia meets hegemony.
Épatant le bourgeoisie : Jerrold Seigel's Bohemian Paris and T. J. Clark's The painting of modern life
The village people : Christine Stansell's American moderns
A slender hope for salvation : Charles Reich's The greening of America
The lumpenhippie guru : Ed Sanders's The family
Strait are the gates : Morris Dickstein's Gates of Eden
The little counterculture that could : Carol Brightman's Sweet chaos
The secret fundamentalists : Jeff Sharlet's The family
Dark night of the quants : ten books about the financial crisis
They bet your life : four books about hedge funds
Living in a material world : Raymond Williams's Long revolution
With a god on his side : Terry Eagleton's Culture and the death of god, culture, and materialism
My friend Marshall : Marshall Berman's Modernism in the streets
VII.
Culture meets capital.
Twentieth century limited : Marshall Berman's All that is solid melts into air
Dialectical cricket : C. L. R. James's Beyond a boundary
Radical pluralist : Andrew Ross's No respect
Inside the prosex wars : Nadine Strossen's Defending pornography, Joanma Frueh's Erotic
Faculties, and Laura Kipnis's Bound and gagged
Growing up kept down : William Finnegan's Cold new world

Control code: 1046471130

Dimensions: 23 cm.

Extent: xiv, 398 pages

Isbn: 9781478000112

Lccn: 2018042309

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia.

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