Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
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-Acolytein the Favor Bank: Banning Eyre’s In Griot Time
	In the Crucible of the Party: Charles and Angeliki Keil’s 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
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
	Impolite Discourse: Jim DeRogatis’s Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, 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
	Fifteen Minutes of . . . : William York’s Who’s Who in Rock Music
	The Fanzine Worldview, Alphabetized: Ira A. Robbins’s (ed.) The 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
IV. Lives in Music Inside and Out
	Great Book of Fire: Nick Tosches’s Hellfire and Robert Palmer’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
	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
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
	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
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 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-Bohemia
	Autobiography of a Pain in the Neck: Meredith Maran’s What It’s Like to Live Now
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
	The Oblique Strategies of a Radical Pluralist: Andrew Ross’s No Respect
	Inside the Prosex Wars: Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography, Joanna Frueh’s Erotic Faculties, and Laura Kipnis’s Bound and Gagged
	Growing Up Kept Down: William Finnegan’s Cold New World
	Jesus Plus the Capitalist Order: 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
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