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Kick out the jams : jibes, barbs, tributes, and rallying cries from 35 years of music writing / Dave Marsh ; edited by Daniel Wolff and Danny Alexander.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xix, 311 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982197162
  • 1982197161
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- Editor's note -- Prologue -- Introduction to Section I: 1984-1989 -- Introduction to Section II: The 1990s -- Introduction to Section III: The 2000s -- Introduction to Section IV: The 2010s -- Postscript: Pete Townshend -- Index.
Summary: "Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview of 20th century popular music--offering a portrait not just of an era but of a writer wrestling with the American empire"-- Provided by publisher
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 781.64 M365 Available 33111011092000
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 781.64 M365 Checked out 07/17/2024 33111011193790
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.

Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview of 20th century popular music--offering a portrait not just of an era but of a writer wrestling with the American empire.

Every essay bears the distinct Dave Marsh attitude and voice. That passion is evident in a heart-wrenching piece on Cobain's suicide and legacy; a humorous attack on "Bono's bullshit;" an indignant look at James Brown and the FBI; deep, revelatory probes into the work of underappreciated artists like Patty Griffin and Alejandro Escovedo; and inspiring insight into what drives Marsh as a writer, namely "a raging passion to explain things in the hope that others would not be trapped and to keep the way clear so that others from the trashy outskirts of barbarous America still had a place to stand--if not in the culture at large, at least in rock and roll."

If you want to explore the recent history of pop music--its politics as well as its performers-- Kick Out the Jams is the perfect guidebook.

"Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview of 20th century popular music--offering a portrait not just of an era but of a writer wrestling with the American empire"-- Provided by publisher

Includes index.

Introduction -- Editor's note -- Prologue -- Introduction to Section I: 1984-1989 -- Introduction to Section II: The 1990s -- Introduction to Section III: The 2000s -- Introduction to Section IV: The 2010s -- Postscript: Pete Townshend -- Index.

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