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Title Listen again : a momentary history of pop music / edited by Eric Weisbard
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 323 pages) : illustrations, music
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Whittling on dynamite: the difference Bert Williams makes / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. -- Searching for the blues : James McKune, collectors, and a different crossroads / Marybeth Hamilton -- Abie the Fishman : on masks, birthmarks, and hunchbacks / Josh Kun -- The Kingsmen and the cha-cha-chá / Ned Sublette -- Ghoulardi : lessons in mayhem from the first age of punk / David Thomas -- Magic moments, the ghost of folk-rock, and the ring of E major / David Brackett -- Mystery girl : the forgotten artistry of Bobbie Gentry / Holly George-Warren -- "Is that all there is?" and the uses of disenchantment / Franklin Bruno -- Ghetto brother power : the Bronx gangs, the Beatles, the Aguinaldo, and a pre-history of hip-hop / Benjamin Melendez, as told to Henry Chalfant and Jeff Chang -- Grand Funk live! staging rock in the age of the arena / Steve Waksman -- The sound of velvet melting : the power of "vibe" in the music of Roberta Flack / Jason King -- All roads lead to "Apache" / Michaelangelo Matos -- On punk rock and not being a girl / Lavinia Greenlaw -- The Buddy Holocaust story : a necromusicology / Eric Weisbard -- ORCH5, or the classical ghost in the hip-hop machine / Robert Fink -- White chocolate soul : Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor / Mark Anthony Neal -- Dancing, democracy, and kitsch : Poland's disco polo / Daphne Carr -- How to act like Darby Crash / Drew Daniel -- Death letters / Greil Marcus
Summary Collection of essays on the history of pop music
Notes "Experience Music Project."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes discographies
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Popular music -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- New Age.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
Popular music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Weisbard, Eric, editor.
Experience Music Project.
ISBN 9780822390558
0822390558
9786612923647
6612923644
1282923641
9781282923645