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9780822312611

Present Tense

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822312611

  • ISBN10:

    0822312611

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-09-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"This shit rocks! To wit: Exhibiting a wide range of critical music writing, this collection speaks volumes about how music, and our varied perceptions of it, are intrinsically woven into the social and ideological web of end-of-the-century thought."--Michael Stipe, R.E.M.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Eighties
The Church of the Sonic Guitar
The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s
A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism
Why Don't We Do It in the Classroom?
Playing for England
Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice
Tracking
Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson's Crisis of Meaning
Concerning the Progress of Rock & Roll
Los Angeles, 1999
Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary
About a Salary or Reality?- Rap's Recurrent Conflict
Voguing at the Carnival: Desire and Pleasure on MTV
Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock & Roll Band
Index
Notes on Contributors
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