Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004,9780306813801

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004

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ISBN13: 9780306813801
ISBN10: 0306813807
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-12
Publisher(s): Da Capo Pr
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Summary

Now in its landmark fifth year,Da Capo Best Music Writinghas 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 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.Past contributors have included: Lynn Hirschberg * Chuck Klosterman * Elizabeth Gilbert * Jay McInerney * Elvis Costello * Susan Orlean * Jonathan Lethem * 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 * Alec Wilkinson * David Hadju * Lenny Kaye * The Onion * Gary Giddins * Luc Sante * Monica Kendrick * Kalefa Sanneh

Author Biography

Mickey Hart is known for three decades of drumming with the Grateful Dead, and as the acclaimed author of Songcatchers, Planet Drum, and Drumming at the Edge of Magic. Hart sits on the board of trustees of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He lives in the Bay area. Paul Bresnick is a literary agent and editor who has edited many award-winning music books. He lives in New York City and East Hampton.

Table of Contents

Introduction: For the Love of Music ix
by Mickey Hart
DAN BAUM 1(16)
Jake Leg
New Yorker
ELIZABETH MÉNDEZ BERRY 17(6)
The Last Hustle
Village Voice
ANDREW BONAZELLI 23(4)
Five Nights, Five Karaoke Bars
Seattle Weekly
GEOFF BOUCHER 27(7)
Beat at Their Own Game
Los Angeles Times
WILLIAM BOWERS 34(17)
I Think I'm Going to Hell
Oxford American
TA-NEHISI COATES 51(9)
Keepin' It Unreal
Village Voice
MICHAEL CORCORAN 60(8)
The Soul of Blind Willie Johnson
Austin American-Statesman
MICHAEL ELDRIDGE 68(25)
Remains of the Day-O
Transition
BILL FRISKICS-WARREN 93(5)
Johnny Cash, 1932-2003: The Man in Black-And Other Colors
Nashville Scene
ROBBIE FULKS 98(11)
Sex, Heartbreak and Blue Suede
GQ
HOWARD HAMPTON 109(13)
Let Us Now Kill White Elephants
Believer
JESSICA HOPPER 122(7)
Emo: Where the Girls Aren't
Punk Planet
T.R. HUMMER 129(4)
The Mechanical Muse
Oxford American
DAVID W. JOHNSON 133(5)
Following the Valley Road to the Homeplace of American Music
Mars Hill Review
LYNNE D JOHNSON 138(7)
Hip-Hop's Holy Trinity
PopMatters
ROY KASTEN 145(4)
Wild Is the Wind Riverfront
Times
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN 149(16)
6,557 Miles to Nowhere
Spin
ADAM MANSBACH 165(8)
Hip-Hop Intellectuals
San Francisco Gate
MICHAELANGELO MATOS 173(13)
69 (Years of) Love Songs
Nerve
BARRY MAZOR 186(23)
Same Shabby Dress: The Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks
No Depression
ANDY McLENON AND GRANT ALDEN 209(13)
Branded Man
No Depression
MARK ANTHONY NEAL 222(8)
The Tortured Soul of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelly
PopMatters
ALEX ROSS 230(13)
Rock
101(142)
New Yorker
CARL HANCOCK RUX 243(23)
Eminem: The New White Negro
Everything But the Burden
GENE SANTORO 266(6)
Willie Nelson at 70
The Nation
RONI SARIG 272(20)
Dungeon Family Tree
Creative Loafing
JOEL SELVIN 292(11)
Stevie Wonder
Mojo
JEFF SHARLET 303(18)
Big World
Harper's Magazine
ROD SMITH 321(4)
The Party at Pou Corner
Seattle Weekly
PHILIP STEPHENS 325(6)
Fate and a Jukebox
Oxford American
COREY TAKAHASHI 331(8)
Musical Masala
Vibe
TOURE 339(10)
The Mystery of Lauryn Hill
Rolling Stone
Other Notable Essays of 2003 349(4)
List of Contributors 353(6)
Credits 359

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