Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & MoreDa Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort-novelists, poets, journalists, musicians-are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.Past writers have included:Elizabeth MEndez Berry * Ta-Nehisi Coates * Michael Corcoran * Robbie Fulks * Michaelangelo Matos * Alex Ross * Roni Sarig * Joel Selvin * Tour8E * Lynn Hirschberg * Chuck Klosterman * Elizabeth Gilbert * Jay McInerney * Elvis Costello * Susan Orlean * Jonathan Lethem * David Rakoff * Mike Doughty * Lorraine Ali * Greil Marcus * Richard Meltzer * Robert Gordon * Sarah Vowell * Nick Tosches * Anthony DeCurtis * William Gay * Whitney Balliett * Lester Bangs * Rosanne Cash * Eddie Dean * Selwyn Seyfu Hinds * Kate Sullivan * Alec Wilkinson * David Hadju * Lenny Kaye * The Onion * Mark Jacobson * Gary Giddins * John Leland * Luc Sante * Monica Kendrick * Kalefa Sanneh |
Contents
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1979 Calling | 9 |
Why Postmodern Minstrelsy Studies Matter | 17 |
And Now a Less Informed Opinion | 41 |
The Year Punk Died and Was Reborn | 47 |
Rocks Enigmatic Poet Opens a LongPrivate Door | 51 |
Punk Is Dead Long Live Punk | 65 |
Revolution Blues | 73 |
The Last Days of Brother Ray | 113 |
The Rap Against Rockism | 129 |
I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say | 135 |
The Shortwave and the Calling | 147 |
Police Secretly Watching HipHop Artists | 159 |
Heavy Meta | 165 |
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | 183 |
Other Notable Essays of 2004 | 193 |
The Lost Boy | 81 |
The Ghost of Saint Kurt | 93 |
Heartbreaking Country Ballad Paralyzes Trucking Industry | 105 |
Edelweiss | 109 |
List of Contributors | 195 |
Acknowledgments | 199 |
Credits | 201 |
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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop ... JT LeRoy Limited preview - 2009 |
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop ... JT LeRoy Limited preview - 2005 |
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop ... JT LeRoy Limited preview - 2009 |
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