Shake it up : great American writing on rock and pop from Elvis to Jay Z /
Shake it up : great American writing on rock and pop from Elvis to Jay Z /
edited by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar.
- xv, 601 pages ; 22 cm
"A Library of America Special Publication."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The freewheelin' Bob Dylan / The changing same (R&B and new Black music) (excerpt) / Learning from the Beatles / Goodbye surfing, hello God! / Master of mediocrity / Outlaw blues / The Memphis soul sound / Lillian Roxon's rock encyclopedia (excerpt) / The best of acappella / The aesthetics of rock (excerpt) / Inside the cages of the zoo / The disco files (excerpt) / Valley of the New York Dolls / Where were you when Elvis died? / In defense of rock theory / Prince / The Cars' power steering / Janis Joplin / The Slits go native / David Bowe eats his young / Hellfire (excerpt) / Boys' night out : Aztec camera clicks / The power and the glory / King Solomon : the throne in exile / Sylvia's husband / The heart of rock & soul : the 1001 greatest singles ever made (excerpt) / The Ramones / Jim Morrison is dead and living in Hollywood / Route 666 (excerpt) / Houses of the holy / Sam Cooke's Night Beat / One nation under a groove (excerpt) / Bruce Springsteen : born to run / Total systems failure / Fargo Rock City (excerpt) / Seven years in the life / O.P.D. ; Deus Est Vivus : The Beatles and The Death Cults (excerpt) / Emo : where the girls aren't / Live at the Apollo (excerpt) / Ray Charles / I is somebody else / The final comeback of Axl Rose / In praise of assholes / Say you want a revolution... / Michael / The Runaways : wild thing / Word : Jay Z's Decoded and the language of hip-hop / Love and hope and sex and dreams : punk rock, disco, New York City & the triumph of the Rolling Stones' Some Girls / After 30 years, I finally went to a Barry Manilow concert / Guitar drag / Sources and acknowledgments -- Index. by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar -- Nat Hentoff -- Amiri Baraka -- Richard Poirier -- Jules Siegel -- Richard Goldstein -- Paul Williams -- Stanley Booth -- Lillian Roxon -- Lenny Kaye -- Richard Meltzer -- Ellen Sander -- Vince Aletti -- Paul Nelson -- Lester Bangs -- Greg Shaw -- Robert Christgau -- Jon Pareles -- Ellen Willis -- Carola Dibbell -- Debra Rae Cohen -- Nick Tosches -- Ariel Swartley -- Nelson George -- Peter Guralnick -- Donna Gaines -- Dave Marsh -- Chuck Eddy -- Eve Babitz -- Gina Arnold -- Ann Powers -- Robert Palmer -- Gerald Early -- Ed Ward -- Camden Joy -- Chuck Klosterman -- Geoffrey O'Brien -- Devin McKinney -- Jessica Hopper -- Douglas Wolk -- David Hajdu -- Luc Sante -- John Jeremiah Smith -- Greg Tate -- Elijah Wald -- Hilton Als -- Evelyn McDonnell -- Kelefa Sanneh -- Anthony DeCurtis -- Danyel Smith -- Greil Marcus --
"Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince Aletti on disco and Gerald Early on Motown; Robert Christgau on Prince, Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Luc Sante on Bob Dylan, Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, Anthony DeCurtis on the Rolling Stones, Kelefa Sanneh on Jay Z. The story this anthology tells is a ongoing one: "it's too early," editors Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar note, "for canon formation in a field so marvelously volatile--a volatility that mirrors, still, that of pop music itself, which remains smokestack lightning. The writing here attempts to catch some in a bottle."--Provided by publisher.
9781598535310 1598535315
2106959719
Rock music--History and criticism.
Popular music--History and criticism.
"A Library of America Special Publication."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The freewheelin' Bob Dylan / The changing same (R&B and new Black music) (excerpt) / Learning from the Beatles / Goodbye surfing, hello God! / Master of mediocrity / Outlaw blues / The Memphis soul sound / Lillian Roxon's rock encyclopedia (excerpt) / The best of acappella / The aesthetics of rock (excerpt) / Inside the cages of the zoo / The disco files (excerpt) / Valley of the New York Dolls / Where were you when Elvis died? / In defense of rock theory / Prince / The Cars' power steering / Janis Joplin / The Slits go native / David Bowe eats his young / Hellfire (excerpt) / Boys' night out : Aztec camera clicks / The power and the glory / King Solomon : the throne in exile / Sylvia's husband / The heart of rock & soul : the 1001 greatest singles ever made (excerpt) / The Ramones / Jim Morrison is dead and living in Hollywood / Route 666 (excerpt) / Houses of the holy / Sam Cooke's Night Beat / One nation under a groove (excerpt) / Bruce Springsteen : born to run / Total systems failure / Fargo Rock City (excerpt) / Seven years in the life / O.P.D. ; Deus Est Vivus : The Beatles and The Death Cults (excerpt) / Emo : where the girls aren't / Live at the Apollo (excerpt) / Ray Charles / I is somebody else / The final comeback of Axl Rose / In praise of assholes / Say you want a revolution... / Michael / The Runaways : wild thing / Word : Jay Z's Decoded and the language of hip-hop / Love and hope and sex and dreams : punk rock, disco, New York City & the triumph of the Rolling Stones' Some Girls / After 30 years, I finally went to a Barry Manilow concert / Guitar drag / Sources and acknowledgments -- Index. by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar -- Nat Hentoff -- Amiri Baraka -- Richard Poirier -- Jules Siegel -- Richard Goldstein -- Paul Williams -- Stanley Booth -- Lillian Roxon -- Lenny Kaye -- Richard Meltzer -- Ellen Sander -- Vince Aletti -- Paul Nelson -- Lester Bangs -- Greg Shaw -- Robert Christgau -- Jon Pareles -- Ellen Willis -- Carola Dibbell -- Debra Rae Cohen -- Nick Tosches -- Ariel Swartley -- Nelson George -- Peter Guralnick -- Donna Gaines -- Dave Marsh -- Chuck Eddy -- Eve Babitz -- Gina Arnold -- Ann Powers -- Robert Palmer -- Gerald Early -- Ed Ward -- Camden Joy -- Chuck Klosterman -- Geoffrey O'Brien -- Devin McKinney -- Jessica Hopper -- Douglas Wolk -- David Hajdu -- Luc Sante -- John Jeremiah Smith -- Greg Tate -- Elijah Wald -- Hilton Als -- Evelyn McDonnell -- Kelefa Sanneh -- Anthony DeCurtis -- Danyel Smith -- Greil Marcus --
"Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince Aletti on disco and Gerald Early on Motown; Robert Christgau on Prince, Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Luc Sante on Bob Dylan, Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, Anthony DeCurtis on the Rolling Stones, Kelefa Sanneh on Jay Z. The story this anthology tells is a ongoing one: "it's too early," editors Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar note, "for canon formation in a field so marvelously volatile--a volatility that mirrors, still, that of pop music itself, which remains smokestack lightning. The writing here attempts to catch some in a bottle."--Provided by publisher.
9781598535310 1598535315
2106959719
Rock music--History and criticism.
Popular music--History and criticism.