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Is it still good to ya? : fifty years of rock criticism, 1967-2017
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Is it still good to ya? : fifty years of rock criticism, 1967-2017 / Robert Christgau.
ISBN
1478002077
9781478002079
1478000082
1478000228
9781478000082
9781478000228
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (443 pages)
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Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2018.
Other formats
Print version: Christgau, Robert. Is it still good to ya? Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 13, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ten-step program for growing better ears
Dionysus in theory and practice
B.E.: a dozen moments in the prehistory of rock and roll
Let's get busy in Hawaiian: a hundred years of ragged beats and cheap tunes
Rock lyrics are poetry (maybe)
"We have to deal with it": punk England report
Rock 'n' roller coaster: the music biz on a joyride
Not my fault, not my problem: classic rock a weekend in paradise: Woodstock '94
Afternoon of the roar: Lollapalooza '95
Staying alive: postclassic disco
Compiling a canon: Harry Smith's anthology of American folk music
Getting their hands dirty: Michael Azerrad's Our band could be your life a month on the town
U.S. and them: are American pop (and semi-pop) still exceptional? and by the way, does that make them better?
What I listen for in music
Pops as pop: Louis Armstrong
Not so misterioso: Thelonious Monk
First lady of song: Billie Holiday
Folksinger, wordslinger, start me a song: Woody Guthrie
Frank Sinatra: 1915-1998
Chuck Berry: 1926-2017
Unnaturals: the coasters with no strings attached
Black Elvis: Sam Cooke
Tough love: Etta James
The excitement! the terror!: Miles Davis's '70s
Sister, oh sister: Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle
Ramone
Road to ruin
Nevermore: Nirvana
A long short story: the go-betweens
Generation gaps: the Spice Girls
Ooh, that sound: the Backstreet Boys
Tear the sky off the mother: 'N Sync
The world is his boudoir: Prince
Queen of pop
Familiar and fabulous
Dylan back: world goes on
Not dead yet
How to survive on an apple pie diet: John Prine
The unflashiest: Willie Nelson
Music from a desert storm
Ghost dance
The Moldy Peaches slip you a roofie
Attack of the chickenshits: Steve Earle
Facing Mecca: Youssou N'dour
Burning bright
Quotations from Charmin M.I.A
Right, the record
Full immersion with suspect tendencies: Paul Simon's Graceland
Fela and his lessers
Vendant l'Afrique
Dakar in gear
A god after midnight: Youssou N'dour
Franco de mi amor
Years of history, thirty seconds of joy
Tribulations of St. Joseph: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Music from a desert war
Growing by degrees: Kanye west
The slim shady essay: Eminem
Career opportunity: the Perceptionists
Good morning, little school girl: R. Kelly
Master and sacrament: Buddy Guy
The commoner queen: Mary J. Blige
A hot little weirdo: Shakira
What's not to like?: Norah Jones
No-hope radio: Radiohead
Rather exhilarating: Sonic Youth
Grant Mclennan: 1958-2006
Ray Charles: 1930-2004
James Brown: 1933-2006
Old master: Bob Dylan
Estudando Tom Zé
Gypsy is his autopilot: Gogol Bordello
Triumph of the id: Lil Wayne
Brag like that: Jay-z
Paisley's progress: Brad Paisley
Smart and smarter: Vampire Weekend
The many reasons to love Wussy
Hearing her pain: Fiona Apple
Firestarter: Miranda Lambert
Monster anthems: Lady Gaga
Dancing on her own: Robyn
Spread out, reach high: M.I.A.'s Kala
Illygirl stepping up
Spelled backwards it's "AIM"
The unassumingest: Lori Mckenna
Who knows it feels it: Bob Marley
Shape shifter: David Bowie: 1947-2016
The most gifted artist of the rock era: Prince: 1958-2016
Forever old: Leonard Cohen: 1933-2016
Sticking it in their ear: Bob Dylan
Don't worry about nothing: Ornette Coleman
Sensualistic, polytheistic: New York Dolls.
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