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Informationen zum Autor Eric Weisbard, ed. Klappentext "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" Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Eric Wesibard 1 1. Whittling on Dynamite: The Difference Bert Williams Makes / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. 7 2. Searching for the Blues: James McKune, Collectors, and a Different Crossroads / Marybeth Hamilton 26 3. Abie the Fishman: On Masks, Birthmarks, and Hunchbacks / Josh Kun 50 4. The Kingsmen and the Cha-Cha-Cha / Ned Sublette 69 5. Ghoulardi: Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk / David Thomas 95 6. Magic Moments, the Ghost of Folk-Rock, and the Ring of E Major / David Brackett 103 7. Mystery Girl: The Forgotten Artistry of Bobbie Gentry / Holly George-Warren 120 8. Is That All There Is? and the Uses of Disenchantment / Franklin Bruno 137 9. Ghetto Brother Power: The Bronx Gangs, the Beatles, the Aguinaldo, and Pre-history of Hip-Hop / Benjamin Melendez, as told to Henry Chalfant and Jeff Chang 150 10. Grand Funk Live! Staging Rock in the Age of the Arena / Steve Waksman 157 11. The Sound of Velvet Melting: The Power of Vibe in the Music of Roberta Flack / Jason King 172 12. All Roads Lead to Apache / Michaelangelo Matos 200 13. On Punk Rock and Not Being a Girl / Lavinia Greenlaw 210 14. The Buddy Holocaust Story: A Necromusicology / Eric Weisbard 219 15. ORCH5, or the Classical Ghost in the Hip-Hop Machine / Robert Fink 231 16. White Chocolate Soul: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor / Marc Anthony Neal 256 17. Dancing, Democracy, and Kitsch: Poland's Disco Polo / Daphne Carr 272 18. How to Act Like Darby Crash / Drew Daniel 286 19. Death Letters / Greil Marcus 296 Acknowledgments 307 Contributors 309 Index 313...

Autorentext
Eric Weisbard, ed.

Klappentext
"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"

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Introduction / Eric Wesibard 1
1. Whittling on Dynamite: The Difference Bert Williams Makes / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. 7
2. Searching for the Blues: James McKune, Collectors, and a Different Crossroads / Marybeth Hamilton 26
3. Abie the Fishman: On Masks, Birthmarks, and Hunchbacks / Josh Kun 50
4. The Kingsmen and the Cha-Cha-Cha / Ned Sublette 69
5. Ghoulardi: Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk / David Thomas 95
6. Magic Moments, the Ghost of Folk-Rock, and the Ring of E Major / David Brackett 103
7. Mystery Girl: The Forgotten Artistry of Bobbie Gentry / Holly George-Warren 120
8. “Is That All There Is?” and the Uses of Disenchantment / Franklin Bruno 137
9. Ghetto Brother Power: The Bronx Gangs, the Beatles, the Aguinaldo, and Pre-history of Hip-Hop / Benjamin Melendez, as told to Henry Chalfant and Jeff Chang 150
10. Grand Funk Live! Staging Rock in the Age of the Arena / Steve Waksman 157
11. The Sound of Velvet Melting: The Power of “Vibe” in the Music of Roberta Flack / Jason King 172
12. All Roads Lead to “Apache” / Michaelangelo Matos 200
13. On Punk Rock and Not Being a Girl / Lavinia Greenlaw 210
14. The Buddy Holocaust Story: A Necromusicology / Eric Weisbard 219
15. ORCH5, or the Classical Ghost in the Hip-Hop Machine / Robert Fink 231
16. White Chocolate Soul: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor / Marc Anthony Neal 256
17. Dancing, Democracy, and Kitsch: Poland’s Disco Polo / Daphne Carr 272
18. How to Act Like Darby Crash / Drew Daniel 286
19. Death Letters / Greil Marcus 296
Acknowledgments 307
Contributors 309
Index 313

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