Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786735082

Whether you count yourself a member of the hip-hop nation, bang your head yearly at Ozzfest, wear a cowboy hat, or dance to the top twenty, you're sure to find something to love in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006. Gathering a rich array of writing by music journalists, novelists, and scribes from a wide range of sources-highbrow literary quarterlies to 'zines and blogs--Da Capo Best Music Writing is a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is revealing.

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000
Author: Douglas Wolk
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2000-10-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780306809996

Welcome to the first volume in an exciting new annual series that celebrates the year's best American writing about music and its culture, as selected by one of the genre's preeminent practitioners. Covering the gamut of contemporary styles—rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, country—Guralnick has chosen the kind of pieces that send you right to the record store, by both established writers and bright new talents. With thirty selections drawn from more than a hundred sources, including mainstream magazines like theNew Yorker, music journals like Spin, and tiny 'zines and websites where the scribes of the new century are found, this collection will be indispensable for music lovers and lovers of wonderful writing alike.

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001
Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001-10-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780306810664

A new collection of essays and articles about music and its culture covers diverse modern styles--rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, country, and more--and features works by Rick Moody, Camden Joy, Courtney Love, Richard Meltzer, Whitney Balliett, and other notables.

Best Music Writing 2009

Best Music Writing 2009
Author: Greil Marcus
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0306817829

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Best Music Writing 2010

Best Music Writing 2010
Author: Ann Powers
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 030681935X

Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. 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.

Best Music Writing 2011

Best Music Writing 2011
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0306819635

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, 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.

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005
Author: JT LeRoy
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786738138

Da 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