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Book reports : a music critic on his first love, which was reading / by Christgau, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)517867;
Includes index."A collection of book reviews and literary essays by Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau which showcases the passion that made him a critic--his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis." --
Subjects: Book reviews.; Reviews.; Music; Music;
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The life and death of classical music : featuring the 100 best and 20 worst recordings ever made / by Lebrecht, Norman,1948-(CARDINAL)168118;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307) and index.
Subjects: Reviews.; Music; Sound recording industry.; Sound recordings;
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All music guide to rock : the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul / by Bogdanov, Vladimir,1965-(CARDINAL)383217; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas.(CARDINAL)665069; Woodstra, Chris.(CARDINAL)386221;
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Biographies.; Discographies.; Reviews.; Popular music; Rock music; Rock music; Rock music; Sound recordings;
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All music guide to rock : the experts' guide to the best recordings in rock, pop, soul, R&B, and rap / by Erlewine, Michael.(CARDINAL)517057;
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Biographies.; Discographies.; Reviews.; Popular music; Rock music; Rock music; Rock music; Sound recordings;
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Classic rock. / by Woodstra, Chris.(CARDINAL)386221; Bush, John,1973-(CARDINAL)611629;
Subjects: Discographies.; Reviews.; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas.; Rock music; Sound recordings; Rock music;
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The Country music book / by Mason, Michael,1939-(CARDINAL)714418;
"Country music books, magazines, and movies / Robert K. Oermann": pages 352-402.
Subjects: Reviews.; Country music; Country music; Country musicians.; Music trade.; Sound recordings;
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Virgil Thomson : music chronicles, 1940-1954 / by Thomson, Virgil,1896-1989,author.(CARDINAL)123613; Page, Tim,1954-editor.(CARDINAL)370512;
Includes bibliographical references and index.When, in October 1940, the New York Herald Tribune named the composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) its chief music critic, the management of the paper braced itself for an uproar. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with librettist Gertrude Stein on the whimsically nonsensical "anti-opera" Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson was notorious among conservative concertgoers as a leader of America's musical avant-garde and a maverick writer who delighted in unmasking the timidity, amateurism, and artistic pretensions of New York's music establishment. But controversy--together with wit, good writing, and critical authority--was exactly what the Herald Tribune was looking for. "Only such an assumption can explain," Thomson later concluded, "why a musician so little schooled in daily journalism, a composer so committed to the modern, and a polemicist so contemptuous as myself of music's power structure should have been offered a post of that prestige." in Virgil Thomson the Herald Tribune got its full share of controversy. It also got something American music journalism had not had before and has rarely had since: a critic who could describe from experience the sounds he hears, the presence and temperaments of the musician producing them, and the urgent matters of art, culture, tradition, talent, and taste that a musician's performance embodies, all in a signature style that charmed a wide readership. "Thomson was open to every stylistic persuasion," John Rockwell of The New York Times has written, and he "concerned himself with music that most music critics didn't consider music at all--jazz, folk, gospel. ... He wrote with enthusiasm and perception about the new music he liked, sweeping his readers along with him. By so doing, he built bridges--long dilapidated or never constructed--between music, the other arts, and the American intellectual community. Indeed, in his music and in his prose, he has given us as profound a vision of American culture as anyone has yet achieved." Music Chronicles 1940-1954 presents the best of Thomson's newspaper criticism as the author collected it in four books long out of print: The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948), Music Right and Left (1951), and Music Reviewed (1967). The volume is rounded out by a generous selection of other writings from the Herald Tribune years and, in an appendix, eight early essays in which Thomson announced the themes and developed the voice that would distinguish him as America's indispensable composer-critic.--Publisher description.
Subjects: Reviews.; Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.; Concerts; Music; Music;
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Broadway musicals / by Brantley, Ben,writer of added commentary.(CARDINAL)647959;
Early years (1900-1920s) -- The 1930s (between the wars) -- The War (II) and post-war -- The fifties -- The sixties and seventies -- The eighties (and the British invasion) and -- Nineties -- The 21st century.
Subjects: Musicals.; Reviews.; Musical theater; Musicals;
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Heavy metal movies : guitar barbarians, mutant bimbos & cult zombies amok in the 666 most ear- and eye-ripping big scream films ever! / by McPadden, Mike.;
Heavy Metal and high-thrill cinema have been joined together like mutant twins. The unadulterated journey of Heavy Metal movies spans concert movies and trippy midnight flicks, inspirational depictions of ancient times and future apocalypses, and raw handheld digital video obsessions, as brash, irreverent, and visceral as both the music and the movies themselves.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Reviews.; Action and adventure films.; Cult films; Fantasy films.; Heavy metal (Music); Horror films; Motion pictures and rock music.; Motion pictures; Rock films; Rock films; Science fiction films.;
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Sondheim & me : revealing a musical genius / by Salsini, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)864688;
"A memoir chronicling the relationship between American musical composer Stephen Sondheim and journalist Paul Salsini during the latter's time as the founder and editor of The Sondheim Review, the only publication devoted solely to Sondheim's work during his lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Musicals.; Nonfiction.; Biographies.; Sondheim, Stephen.; Salsini, Paul.; Sondheim review.; Composers; Journalists; Musicals;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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