Weisbard Listen Again

A Momentary History of Pop Music
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9055-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Collection of essays on the history of pop music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weisbard, Eric

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lhamon Jr., W. T.

Hamilton, Marybeth

Kun, Josh

Sublette, Ned

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Eric Wesibard 1

1. Whittling on Dynamite: The Difference Bert Williams Makes / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. 7

2. Searching for the Blues: James McKune, Collectors, and a Different Crossroads / Marybeth Hamilton 26

3. Abie the Fishman: On Masks, Birthmarks, and Hunchbacks / Josh Kun 50

4. The Kingsmen and the Cha-Cha-Cha / Ned Sublette 69

5. Ghoulardi: Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk / David Thomas 95

6. Magic Moments, the Ghost of Folk-Rock, and the Ring of E Major / David Brackett 103

7. Mystery Girl: The Forgotten Artistry of Bobbie Gentry / Holly George-Warren 120

8. “Is That All There Is?” and the Uses of Disenchantment / Franklin Bruno 137

9. Ghetto Brother Power: The Bronx Gangs, the Beatles, the Aguinaldo, and Pre-history of Hip-Hop / Benjamin Melendez, as told to Henry Chalfant and Jeff Chang 150

10. Grand Funk Live! Staging Rock in the Age of the Arena / Steve Waksman 157

11. The Sound of Velvet Melting: The Power of “Vibe” in the Music of Roberta Flack / Jason King 172

12. All Roads Lead to “Apache” / Michaelangelo Matos 200

13. On Punk Rock and Not Being a Girl / Lavinia Greenlaw 210

14. The Buddy Holocaust Story: A Necromusicology / Eric Weisbard 219

15. ORCH5, or the Classical Ghost in the Hip-Hop Machine / Robert Fink 231

16. White Chocolate Soul: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor / Marc Anthony Neal 256

17. Dancing, Democracy, and Kitsch: Poland’s Disco Polo / Daphne Carr 272

18. How to Act Like Darby Crash / Drew Daniel 286

19. Death Letters / Greil Marcus 296

Acknowledgments 307

Contributors 309

Index 313

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Weisbard is the organizer of the annual Experience Music Project Pop Conference. He was a curator and senior manager of the Experience Music Project from 2001 until 2005. Before that, he worked as an editor and contributing writer at Spin and The Village Voice. He is the author of Use Your Illusion I and II and the editor of This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project and the Spin Alternative Record Guide.