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Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More 2000th Edition
Author(s): Douglas Wolk (Author), Peter Guralnick (Author)
- Publisher: Da Capo
- Publication Date: August 1, 2000
- Edition: 2000th
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0306809990
- ISBN-13: 9780306809996
Book Description
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 stylesrock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, countryGuralnick 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.
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Coeditor Guralnik is quick to mention that this collection is not “a contest . . . but . . . a celebration” of the diverse world of popular music. As celebration, it succeeds memorably, with articles on such disparate stylists as Roseanne Cash, Run-D.M.C., and the legendary Shaggs. Rebecca Mead explores how sex and drugs contributed to “the disintegration of a young Cape Breton fiddler.” Alec Wilkinson asks, “Who put the honky tonk in ‘Honky Tonk Women,'” in his consideration of Ry Cooder. Ben Sandmel discusses underrated New Orleans legend Ernie K-Doe. Veteran rock critics Greil Marcus and Dave Marsh contribute mercifully short pieces–Marcus on the cultural referencing of pop songs, including Dylan’s legendary “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” and Marsh on the lasting influence of black gospel music. Madonna, plagiarism, and the resurrection of punk sensibility are also dealt with, and Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn are saluted. With a little something for fans of nearly every kind of popular music, this is one of the best omnibuses of incisive writing about pop music. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
About the Author
Douglas Wolk writes about comics and music for publications including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, Salon, and The Believer. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
