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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
Weisbard
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Description for Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
Paperback. Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, this title includes essays that pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Editor(s): Weisbard, Eric. Num Pages: 336 pages, 13 photographs, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGP; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop Conference, where journalists, musicians, academics, and other culturemongers come together once each year to stretch the boundaries of pop music culture, criticism, and scholarship.
Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop Conference, where journalists, musicians, academics, and other culturemongers come together once each year to stretch the boundaries of pop music culture, criticism, and scholarship.
Building a history of pop music out of unexpected instances, critics and musicians delve into topics from ... Read more
Contributors. David Brackett, Franklin Bruno, Daphne Carr, Henry Chalfant, Jeff Chang, Drew Daniel, Robert Fink, Holly George-Warren, Lavinia Greenlaw, Marybeth Hamilton, Jason King, Josh Kun, W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Greil Marcus, Michaelangelo Matos, Benjamin Melendez, Mark Anthony Neal, Ned Sublette, David Thomas, Steve Waksman, Eric Weisbard
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Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822340416
SKU
V9780822340416
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About Weisbard
Eric Weisbard is the organizer of the annual Experience Music Project Pop Conference. He was a curator and senior manager of the Experience Music Project from 2001 until 2005. Before that, he worked as an editor and contributing writer at Spin and The Village Voice. He is the author of Use Your Illusion I and II and the editor of ... Read more
Reviews for Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
“The EMP papers are a text radio, spilling out evidence of so many strange brilliant forays into the starry night of our common culture. Here’s where my American history—and yours—goes to find itself.”—Jonathan Lethem, author of You Don’t Love Me Yet “[T]he papers featured in this volume are typically eclectic, eccentric and unorthodox while remaining highly readable and sometimes quite ... Read more