The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll

by Edmundson, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780061713491
• ISBN10: 006171349X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-10
• Publisher: Perennial

Summary

After graduating from college in 1974, Mark Edmundson leaves Vermont to seek his destiny--a quest he knows involves rock and roll and America's high court of mischief and ambition, New York City. Shepherded by a carousing, Marx-quoting friend, he moves into a grungy apartment and embarks on a dream career lugging amps for rock's biggest stars: the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Allman Brothers. But as time wears on, Edmundson finds himself at odds with life in his adopted city and drifts through a regimen of late-night cab driving and radical politics, increasingly detached from the hopes he nursed back in school. Prodded and enlightened along the way by a cast of rogue mentors--his "Kings (and Queens) of Rock and Roll"--Edmundson checks out of New York and careens across the country in search of the elusive "it": the perfect vocation, his slightly crazy, ideal way of life.

Author Biography

Mark Edmundson is a professor at the University of Virginia and the prizewinning author of numerous works of cultural criticism, including Why Read?; Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida; and Teacher. He lives in Batesville, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Beginnings (hot shits)	p. 1
The King of Rock and Roll (music)	p. 11
Taxi! (money)	p. 37
A Moviegoer (jobs)	p. 67
Life Drugs, Death Drugs (consciousness)	p. 93
How to Leave New York (nature)	p. 117
Disco Nights (eros)	p. 141
School Days (depression)	p. 165
Woodstock II (vocation)	p. 191
acknowledgments	p. 225
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