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Jun. 13.
The “Dean of Rock Critics” takes the helm for the eighth edition of Da Capo’s acclaimed annual compendium of thrilling words on music. Rappers, rockers, emo-boys, jazz snobs, and poptimists alike eagerly anticipate each edition of Best Music Writing. Returning Series Editor Daphne Carr is joined by a true pioneer of the form, esteemed critic Robert Christgau. Past editions of Best Music Writing have included: Anne Midgette * David Ritz * Dave Eggers Sasha Frere-Jones * Michaelangelo Matos Elizabeth Méndez Berry * Alex Ross Elizabeth Gilbert * Jay McInerney Lynn Hirschberg * Chuck Klosterman Sarah Vowell * Nick Tosches * Rosanne Cash Greil Marcus * Richard Meltzer * Touré Susan Orlean * Jonathan Lethem Kate Sullivan * David Hadju * Gary Giddins Luc Sante * Monica Kendrick * Kelefa Sanneh and more…
About the Author
Robert Christgau is the author of Grown Up All Wrong and Any Old Way You Choose It, among other books. He (more…)
Jun. 13.
Review
Booklist“Brimming over with vital stuff.”London Metro, 10/08“Something you can sink your teeth into.”Nashville City Paper, October 2008“always a treat and a delight…this year’s edition proves no different, and the scope, variety and quality are quite impressive.”USAToday.com “I look forward to this anthology every year, and it never disappoints!”Brick Weekly, 1/22/09 “There’s some pretty sharp stuff in here done by some real worldly cats. The entire book’s a joy to read.” St. Joe Channel “The latest edition in the fine series is a solid anthology made up of articles that discuss a wide range of topics and genres within the subject of music…There are many hits in this three hundred and twenty-seven pages of articles…Yet another good edition in a quality series.”SwampLand.com“Always worthwhile.”
The ninth entry in the acclaimed series celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to h (more…)
Jun. 13.
From Library Journal
As accurate and obsessively detailed as www.allmusic.com is, its print cousins can seem somewhat redundant. This well-established entry, now in its third edition, offers biographical and listener’s advisory information on artists and recordings that All Music Guide (AMG) editors Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine have deemed rock an all-encompassing term that includes pop, soul, R&B, rap, and easy listening. Since the last edition (1997), about 3000 album reviews and 400 artist profiles have been added. That makes for a total of 2200 alphabetically arranged artist entries and 14,000 reviews (rated on a scale of one to five stars), most of which are signed. While the contributors cover a remarkable range of new artists from Aaliyah to Weezer, they often give short shrift to those who recorded prior to the 1980s; sometimes, whole bodies of work are ignored in favor of “best of” compilations. Refreshingly, most reviews are free of ro (more…)
Nice Gerdening Decor
Jun. 13.
Review
USAToday.com’s Pop Candy Blog, PopMatters “I look forward to it every year!”USA Today “[P]ieces examine the music world in a social context, which makes for a challenging, and engaging, read.”USAToday.com’s Pop Candy blog “[Y]ou really should get the book, which is one of my favorite annual compilations.”BooklistOnline “…essential, as usual.”
Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year’s most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it’s appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, Like a Rolling Stone, and other groundbreaking excursions into the very fabric of music, America, and beyond.As always, Series Editor Daphne Carr has culled an impressively wide range of essays, profiles, news articles, interviews, creative non-fiction, fiction, book reviews, long-format reviews, blo (more…)
Jun. 13.
From Booklist
Since the Caribbean’s multifaceted music is usually heard in the U.S. only in such popular forms as reggae and salsa, Manuel and company’s diligent scholarship is much needed. They provide thoughtful descriptions of such overlooked styles as the bachata of the Dominican Republic and the voudou-jazz of Haiti, as well as of the forms of more musically famous islands, such as Jamaica and Trinidad. They discuss such insular cultural manifestations as the salsa vs. merengue conflict in New York City and the Hindu devotional songs of Trinidad’s Indian community. They describe their travels in several rather inaccessible countries, particularly Cuba. They cogently argue how the Caribbean’s historical, political, and social developments shaped its musics. The musical analyses and notation they provide are straightforward enough to interest careful listeners as well as casual fans, and the many helpful discographies throughout the book–not to mention the cool phot (more…)
Inground Pool Supplies
Jun. 13.
Dan Coates adds his expert touch to these 70 easy piano arrangements of Alfred’s most requested, top-selling standards and pop songs. Titles include: Amazed * Breakaway * Because You Loved Me * Dance with My Father * How Do I Live * I Swear * Inside Your Heaven * Lean on Me * Right Here Waiting * There You’ll Be * This I Promise You * Thank You * When You Tell Me That You Love Me * You Raise Me Up and more. 256 pages.
Jun. 13.
Review
First rate
.I am frankly in awe of the achievement. — Ed Nowacki, University of CincinnatiThis truly significant updating
will be welcomed enthusiastically by teachers and students alike. — Andrew Dell’Antonio, University of Texas, Austin
–This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades, and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli’s In ecclesiis, Lully’s Te Deum, Haydn’s Creation, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky; more opera, including Norma, Les Huguenots, and Madama Butterfly; orchestral and chamber works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bart
Jun. 13.
“Indispensible, illuminating, and comprehensive.” –The Times (London) This has remained the best and most successful guide to classical music for more than forty years. Fully revised by its team of eminent authors and written with wit and passion, The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music offers reviews of all the latest releases as well as the finest established recordings.
About the Author
Ivan March is a well-known lecturer, journalist, and personality in the world of recorded music. Edward Greenfield was a music critic at The Guardian for forty years. Robert Layton is a journalist and broadcaster. Paul Czajkowski is the longtime editor of The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music.
Jun. 13.
Review
“Should be on every blues lover’s list.” -Blues Access “Easily the best blues guide…a real winner.” -Real Blues
Fully updated to reflect today’s revitalized blues world, this guide is any blues fan’s lifeline to the best blues past and present. It reviews and rates 7,000 recordings in all major styles across the blues map – from Delta blues to Louisiana, Memphis, Chicago, Texas, and beyond; from classic female singers to jump blues, blues slide guitar, blues in jazz, soul blues, blues-rock, modern acoustic and electric blues, and more. This fun and easy-to-use guide provides profiles of over 1,000 blues artists. Thirty historical essays plus supplemental “music maps” chart the roots and evolution of the blues, its various styles, instruments used, key artists, and more. The essays explore the blues from the Mississippi Delta to modern electric blues and everything in between.
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