Read Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno by Robert Christgau Online
Read * Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno PDF by * Robert Christgau eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno A critical compendium of points of interest in American popular music and its far-flung diaspora, this book ranges from the 1950s singer-songwriter tradition through hip-hop, alternative, and beyond. Rock and punk and hip-hop, pop and world beat: this is the music of the second half of the twentieth century, skillfully framed in the work of a writer whose reach, insight, and perfect pitch make him one of the major cultural critics of our time.. And from the Rolling Stones to Sonic Youth to Nir
| Title | : | Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674003829 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Gregor von Kallahann said Grown Up All Wrong--And Proud of It. It's telling that in the nearly ten years of this book's existence, it has accrued exactly one "customer review" (prior to this one, which hopefully will see the light of day). But (and this is a big but) if you look at the "Editorial Reviews," you could easily be overwhelmed by all the ink that's been spilled (or bits that have been keyed) on the subject this not-so-humble collection of essays on some the po. "the best popular music critic currently writing" according to A Customer. I've been following Christgau's work in the Village Voice for almost twenty-five years now. Though he can be a bit prolix, if there exists a more astute observer of pop culture, I've failed to find him/her. Chief among his many strengths as a critic is the fact that he (like the sorely missed Pauline Kael) has never forgotten that art should first be pleasurable. He is also as immune to knee-jerk put-downs (c. Chadwick Henley Essex said Grown Up?. All children, except one, grow up.Well. Two.
These essays provide so much raw information, and show so much listening-in-action, that readers and fans should?sometimes? forgive both the academese and the inside baseball. This volume collects columns and reviews of gigs and records from about 1972 to 1997 (with some early work beefed up or revised). Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. More so than his friend and peer Greil Marcus, Christgau can be relentlessly glib, maddeningly gossipy, far too focused on what other critics have said or addicted to lit-crit-lite: "Freebird" is "a perfect example of technopastoral counterculture transcendence." (The introduction shows Christgau at his self-celebrating worst: "From early on I saw pop as class warfare.") What he says about Patti Smi
A critical compendium of points of interest in American popular music and its far-flung diaspora, this book ranges from the 1950s singer-songwriter tradition through hip-hop, alternative, and beyond. Rock and punk and hip-hop, pop and world beat: this is the music of the second half of the twentieth century, skillfully framed in the work of a writer whose reach, insight, and perfect pitch make him one of the major cultural critics of our time.. And from the Rolling Stones to Sonic Youth to Nirvana, from Bette Midler to Michael Jackson to DJ Shadow, he shows how money calls the tune in careers that aren't necessarily compromised by their intercourse with commerce. He praises the endless vitality of Al Green, George Clinton, and Neil Young. With unfailing style and grace, Christgau negotiates the straits of great music and thorny politics, as in the cases of Public Enemy, blackface artist Emmett Miller, KRS-One, the Beastie Boys, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. King, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presley--and looks at the subtle transition to just plain "rock" in the music of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and others. B. He illuminates legends from pop music and the beginnings of rock and roll--George Gershwin, Nat King Cole, B. Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and ca
Download Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno
Download as PDF : Click Here
Download as DOC : Click Here
Download as RTF : Click Here