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9780306814990

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006

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    9780306814990

  • ISBN10:

    0306814994

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-10-23
  • Publisher: Da Capo Pr

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Summary

Whether you count yourself a member of the hip-hop nation, bang your head yearly at Ozzfest, wear a cowboy hat, or dance to the top twenty, you're sure to find something to love inDa Capo Best Music Writing 2006. Gathering a rich array of writing by music journalists, novelists, and scribes from a wide range of sources-highbrow literary quarterlies to 'zines and blogs--Da Capo Best Music Writingis a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is revealing.

Author Biography

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novel Veronica, a finalist for the National Book Award and one of the New York Times' top five novels of the year. She is the author of Because They Wanted To, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Her story "Secretary" was the basis for the film of the same name. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. She lives in New York. Daphne Carr is the author of Pretty Hate Machine, and her work appears regularly in the Associated Press, Village Voice, Chicago Tribune, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
Mary Gaitskill
Greil Marcus
1(8)
Stories of a Bad Song
Threepenny Review
Alex Ross
9(27)
Doctor Atomic ``Countdown''
The New Yorker
Mike McGuirk
Rush, Hemispheres
35(38)
Charlie Rich, Behind Closed Doors
73(5)
Ted Nugent, Cat Scratch Fever
78(11)
Kylie Minogue, I Believe in You
89(19)
Accept, Balls to the Wall
108(131)
Frosty, Liquor Drink
239(46)
Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast
285(9)
Boredoms, Super Ae
294(5)
Kraftwerk, Man-Machine
299(6)
Dream Theater, Octavarium
305
Rhapsody
Robert Wheaton
36(14)
London Calling---For Congo, Colombo, Sri Lanka . . .
PopMatters
Jon Caramanica
50(8)
Ghetto Gospel
XXL Magazine
Elizabeth Mendez Berry
58(9)
Love Hurts
Vibe
Charles Michener
67(7)
Going Bonkers at the Opera: Glimmerglass Flirts with Chaos
New York Observer
Ann Powers
74(11)
Crazy Is as Crazy Does
eMusic
Miss AMP
Kevin Blechdom
79(6)
Plan B Magazine
Kimberly Chun
85(5)
Touched by a Woman: Dolly Parton Sings `bout Peace, Love & Understanding
Creative Loafing
Frank Kogan
90(2)
Frank Kogan's Country Music Critics' Ballot 2005 (excerpt)
I Love Music (ilxor.com)
John Biguenet
92(8)
The DeZurik Sisters: Two Farm Girls Who Yodeled Their Way to the Grand Ole Opry
The Oxford American
Katy St. Clair
100(9)
A Very Special Concert: The Enduring Bond Between Huey Lewis and the Developmentally Disabled
SF Weekly
Nick Weidenfeld
109(6)
Dying in the Al Gore Suite
The Fader
Tom Ewing
115(4)
The Beatles----``Eleanor Rigby''/``Yellow Submarine'' (Reached No. 1 on 20th August 1966)
Popular (http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/)
Geoffrey O'Brien
119(13)
``Will You Love Me Tomorrow''
The New York Review of Books
Geoff Boucher
132(7)
Ex-Door Lighting Their Ire
Los Angeles Times
Dave Tompkins
139(9)
Permission to `Land
Scratch Magazine
Kevin Whitehead
148(4)
Chops: Upstairs, Downstairs with Art Tatum (and Monk)
eMusic
Robert Christgau
152(8)
The First Lady of Song
The Nation
Anne Midgette
160(9)
The End of The Great Big American Voice
New York Times
Bill Friskics-Warren
169(15)
Bettye LaVette
No Depression
Susan Alcorn
184(14)
The Road, the Radio, and the Full Moon
Counterpunch
John Jeremiah Sullivan
198(33)
Upon This Rock
GQ
Peter Relic
231(9)
The Return
XXL Magazine
David Thorpe
240(13)
Thorpe's Notes on R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet
SomethingAwful.com
Raquel Cepeda
253(7)
Riddims by the Reggaeton: Puerto Rico's hip-hop hybrid takes over New York
Village Voice
Wayne Marshall
260(12)
we use so many snares
wayne&wax
Andrew Hultkrans
272(3)
Sweat and Lowdown
Artforum
J. Edward Keyes
275(11)
Where's the Party? 13 Hours with the Next Franz Ferdinand
DIW Magazine
David Marchese
286(9)
High On Fire
PopMatters
Monica Kendrick
295(5)
Bang the Head Slowly: Uncomfortable, Unemotional, Isolating Metal at a Snail's Pace
Chicago Reader
Will Hermes (As Robert Barbara)
300(6)
Vegetarian militancy, sound magick, B&D, and the most astonishing live show of my life
Loose Strife (http://loosestrife.blogspot.com)
Moustafa Bayoumi
306(9)
Disco Inferno
The Nation
Other Notable Essays of 2005
315(4)
List of Contributors 319(8)
Credits 327

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