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Christgau S Record Guide
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Christgau S Record Guide written by Robert Christgau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.
This text surveys the popular music of the decade that brought us rap, hardcore, MTV, new age, new wave, worldbeat and speed metal - the decade of Prince, King Sunny Ade, Marshall Crenshaw, De-Barge, The Replacements, Black Union, Hukser Du, New Order, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Madonna and Public Enemy. Robert Christgau, author of Rock Albums of the '70s is one of America's leading rock critics. In this book he reviews and letter-grades some 3000 albums, providing a guide to the rock, pop, country, rap, blues, rock-related jazz, reggae, and African records of the 1980s.
Christgau S Record Guide
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1990
Christgau S Record Guide written by Robert Christgau and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Music categories.
This is a guide to the rock albums of the 1980s with quotes from over 3,000 reviews.
Christgau S Record Guide
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: New Haven : Ticknor & Fields
Release Date : 1981
Christgau S Record Guide written by Robert Christgau and has been published by New Haven : Ticknor & Fields this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Music categories.
Christgau S Record Guide
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 1981
Christgau S Record Guide written by Robert Christgau and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Music categories.
Here is the first and only book to survey the popular music of the decade that brought us rap, hardcore, MTV, new age, new wave, worldbeat, and speed metal -- the decade of Prince, King Sunny Ade, Marshall Crenshaw, DeBarge, The Replacements, Black Uhuru, Husker Du, New Order, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Madonna, and Public Enemy. Robert Christgau, author of "Rock Albums of the '70s" (also available from Da Capo Press), has earned his place as America's foremeost rock critic by distilling enthusiastic nonstop listing into incisive, knowledgeable, and sometimes hilarious judgements. In this book he reviews and letter-grades some 3000 albums providing a comprehensive guide to the rock, pop, country, rap, blues, rock-related jazz, reggae, and African records of the 1980s.
Is It Still Good To Ya
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-09
Is It Still Good To Ya written by Robert Christgau and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-09 with Music categories.
Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America's most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it's sometimes simple or silly. While compiling historical overviews going back to Dionysus and the gramophone along with artist analyses that range from Louis Armstrong to M.I.A., this definitive collection also explores pop's African roots, response to 9/11, and evolution from the teen music of the '50s to an art form compelled to confront mortality as its heroes pass on. A final section combines searching obituaries of David Bowie, Prince, and Leonard Cohen with awed farewells to Bob Marley and Ornette Coleman.
Christgau S Consumer Guide Albums Of The 90s
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2000-10-15
Christgau S Consumer Guide Albums Of The 90s written by Robert Christgau and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-15 with Music categories.
The Dean of American Rock Critics tackles the decade when music exploded. The '90s saw more albums produced and distributed than any other decade. It was a fertile era for new genres, from alt-rock to Afropop, hip hop to techno. Rock critic Robert Christgau's obsessive ear and authoritative pen have covered it all-over 3,800 albums graded and classified, from A+s to his celebrated turkeys and duds. A rich appendix section ensures that nothing's been left out-from "subjects for further research" to "everything rocks but nothing ever dies." Christgau's Consumer Guide is essential reading and reference for any dedicated listener.
Going Into The City
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Release Date : 2016-02-16
Going Into The City written by Robert Christgau and has been published by Dey Street Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of our great essayists and journalists—the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau—takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art. Lifelong New Yorker Robert Christgau has been writing about pop culture since he was twelve and getting paid for it since he was twenty-two, covering rock for Esquire in its heyday and personifying the music beat at the Village Voice for over three decades. Christgau listened to Alan Freed howl about rock ‘n’ roll before Elvis, settled east of Manhattan’s Avenue B forty years before it was cool, witnessed Monterey and Woodstock and Chicago ’68, and the first abortion speak-out. He’s caught Coltrane in the East Village, Muddy Waters in Chicago, Otis Redding at the Apollo, the Dead in the Haight, Janis Joplin at the Fillmore, the Rolling Stones at the Garden, the Clash in Leeds, Grandmaster Flash in Times Square, and every punk band you can think of at CBGB. Christgau chronicled many of the key cultural shifts of the last half century and revolutionized the cultural status of the music critic in the process. Going Into the City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him, and the music, books, and films that showed him the way. Like Alfred Kazin’s A Walker in the City, E. B. White’s Here Is New York, Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel, and Patti Smith’s Just Kids, it is a loving portrait of a lost New York. It’s an homage to the city of Christgau’s youth from Queens to the Lower East Side—a city that exists mostly in memory today. And it’s a love story about the Greenwich Village girl who roamed this realm of possibility with him.
Rock Albums Of The 70s
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1990-08-22
Rock Albums Of The 70s written by Robert Christgau and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-08-22 with Music categories.
Robert Christgau on James Brown: "When he modulates to the bridge it's like the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters. After that he could describe his cars for three [LP] sides and get away with it." Christgau on Carly Simon: "If a horse could sing in a monotone, the horse would sound like Carly Simon, only a horse wouldn't rhyme 'yacht,' 'apricot,' and 'gavotte.'" Christgau on Van Morrison: "This is a man who gets stoned on a drink of water and urges us to turn our radios all the way into the mystic. Visionary hooks his specialty." Christgau on Lou Reed: "Reed Sounds like he's imitating his worst enemy, himself." (Lou Reed on Robert Christgau: "What a moron! Studying rock and roll. I can't believe it!") An indispensable book, Christgau's Rock Albums the '70s is the definitive guide to nearly 3,000 albums of the decade that brought us progressive rock, country rock, glam rock, funk, disco, punk, heavy metal, and new wave.
Grown Up All Wrong
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Author : Robert Christgau
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998
Grown Up All Wrong written by Robert Christgau and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 caveat emptor. His writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years. Whether honoring the originators of rock and roll, celebrating established artists, or spreading the word about newer ones, the book is pure enjoyment, a pleasure that takes its cues from the sounds it chronicles. 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. 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. He illuminates legends from pop music and the beginnings of rock and roll—George Gershwin, Nat King Cole, B. B. 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. He praises the endless vitality of Al Green, George Clinton, and Neil Young. 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. 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.
Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung
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Author : Lester Bangs
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2013-09-04
Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung written by Lester Bangs and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-04 with Music categories.
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus.