| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
The Eighties / Anthony DeCurtis -- The Church of the Sonic Guitar / Robert Palmer -- The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s / Trent Hill -- A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism / Greil Marcus -- Why Don't We Do It in the Classroom? / Glenn Gass -- Playing for England / Paul Smith -- Rock and Roll as a Cultural Practice / David R. Shumway -- Tracking / Robert B. Ray -- Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson's Crisis of Meaning / Mark Dery -- Concerning the Progress of Rock and Roll / Michael Jarrett -- Los Angeles, 1999 / Paul Evans -- Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary / Martha Nell Smith -- About a Salary or Reality? -- Rap's Recurrent Conflict / Alan Light -- Voguing at the Carnival: Desire and Pleasure on MTV / Dan Rubey -- Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock and Roll Band / Jeff Calder |
| Summary |
The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings together writers from a wide variety of fields to explore how rock & roll is made, consumed, and experienced in our time. In this collection, Greil Marcus creates a collage of words and pictures that evokes and explores Elvis Presley's grisly fate as an American cultural image, while Rob |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rock music -- History and criticism
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Music -- Social aspects.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Heavy Metal.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Punk.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Rock.
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Music -- Social aspects
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Rock music
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Popmuziek.
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Populaire cultuur.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
DeCurtis, Anthony, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822382225 |
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0822382229 |
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0822312654 |
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9780822312659 |
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