DA Capo Best Music Writing 2004

Now in its landmark fifth year, "Da Capo 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 and more, 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.Past contributors have included: Lynn Hirschberg * Chuck Klosterman * Elizabeth Gilbert * Jay McInerney * Elvis Costello * Susan Orlean * Jonathan Lethem * Lorraine Ali * Greil Marcus * Richard Meltzer * Robert Gordon * Sarah Vowell * Nick Tosches * Anthony DeCurtis * William Gay * Whitney Balliett * Lester Bangs * Rosanne Cash * Eddie Dean * Selwyn Seyfu Hinds * Alec Wilkinson * David Hadju * Lenny Kaye * The Onion * Gary Giddins * Luc Sante * Monica Kendrick * Kalefa Sanneh

ISBN 0306813807   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780306813801 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher The Perseus Books Group   Weight (grammes) 413 Imprint Da Capo Press Inc   Published in Cambridge, MA Format Paperback   Series title Da Capo Best Music Writing Publication date 22 Sep 2004   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress ML1   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 781.64   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

		Introduction : for the love of music by Mickey Hart
		Jake Leg by Dan Baum		1
		The last hustle by Elizabeth Mendez Berry		17
		Five nights, five karaoke bars by Andrew Bonazelli		23
		Beat at their own game by Geoff Boucher		27
		I think I'm going to hell by William Bowers		34
		Keepin' it unreal by Ta-Nehisi Coates		51
		The soul of blind Willie Johnson by Michael Corcoran		60
		Remains of the day-O by Michael Eldridge		68
		Johnny Cash, 1932-2003 : The man in black - and other colors by Bill Friskics-Warren		93
		Sex, heartbreak and blue suede by Robbie Fulks		98
		Let us now kill white elephants by Howard Hampton		109
		Emo : where the girls aren't by Jessica Hopper		122
		The mechanical muse by T. R. Hummer		129
		Following the valley road to the homeplace of American music by David W. Johnson		133
		Hip-hop's holy trinity by Lynne D. Johnson		138
		Wild is the wind by Roy Kasten		145
		6,557 miles to nowhere by Chuck Klosterman		149
		Hip-hop intellectuals by Adam Mansbach		165
		69 (years of) love songs by Michaelangelo Matos		173
		Same shabby dress : the legacy of little Miss Cornshucks by Barry Mazor		186
		Branded man by Andy McLenon and Grant Alden		209
		The tortured soul of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelly by Mark Anthony Neal		222
		Rock 101 by Alex Ross		230
		Eminem : the new white Negro by Carl Hancock Rux		243
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"This lively survey of rock and pop musings-culled from mainstream glossies and online journals as well as thumb-smudging alterna-weeklies-is pure music-geek rapture." - Entertainment Weekly "2003's edition might be the best yet. Each page makes me want to either dance or visit a rock star's grave." - USA Today "Matt Groening chooses smart, offbeat pieces that look at jazz, doo-wop, rap, Morrissey, Africans in Paris and a lot more."- Boston Herald "Nary a weak essay."-Publishers Weekly"

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