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9780306818332

Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780306818332

  • ISBN10:

    0306818337

  • Edition: Original
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-10-06
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group

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Heroes and Villains is the first collection of essays by David Hajdu, the award-winning author of The Ten-Cent Plague, Positively 4th Street, and Lush Life. Eclectic and controversial, Hajdu's essays take on topics as varied as pop music, jazz, the avant-garde, comic books, and our downloading culture.

Author Biography

David Hajdu is the music critic for The New Republic and the author of The Ten-Cent Plague, Positively 4th Street, and Lush Life. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
B'S Worldp. 1
The Man Who Was Too Hotp. 3
Whose Standards?p. 19
Mos Def and the American Songbookp. 21
Rodgers and Hartp. 27
Two Livesp. 34
Anita O'Dayp. 40
Roman Candlep. 45
Susannah McCorklep. 50
Blues and The Abstract Truthp. 55
A Hundred Years of Bluesp. 57
Alan Lomaxp. 66
Dinah Washington: Queenp. 74
Ray Charlesp. 81
Growing Upp. 87
Elvis Costello at Fiftyp. 89
Brian Wilson and the Lost Masterpiecep. 96
Sting the Lutenistp. 103
Joe Sacco and Daniel Clowesp. 108
The White Stripesp. 116
Abbey Lincoln and Mark Murphyp. 122
Three Women in Popp. 128
Cultural Machineryp. 135
The Blogging of American Popp. 137
MySpacep. 144
The Music of Starbucksp. 150
Rick Rubin and Kanye Westp. 156
Open-Source Remixingp. 162
Life with the Lionsp. 169
Woody Guthriep. 171
Will Eisnerp. 178
Elvis and the Colonelp. 187
Ken Burns and the Great Men of Jazzp. 194
The Lifep. 201
Paul McCartney's Chaos and Creationp. 206
Joni Mitchell's Shinep. 212
Wynton Marsalisp. 218
Otherwise Engagedp. 237
Harry Partchp. 239
Elmer Fuddp. 250
Walt Whitman and Fred Hersch: The Jazz Leaves of Grassp. 255
Michel Petruccianip. 261
Book of Longingp. 270
Jules Feiffer at the Village Voicep. 276
John Zornp. 283
Josh Grobanp. 289
Marjane Satrapip. 295
Acknowledgmentsp. 305
Creditsp. 307
Indexp. 309
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