| Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture Contributor(s): Decurtis, Anthony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822312611 ISBN-13: 9780822312611 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1992 Annotation: 'Ever since people started writing about rock, other people have made fun of them. Anthony DeCurits's anthology, with its clutch of academics, rock writers, and musicians, will strike cynics as inherently pretentious. They will be wrong: This is a smart, witty, ingeniously balanced assortment of rock commentary, with a healthy number of pieces that seem prescient and even moving.' --John Rockwell, European Cultural Correspondent, The New York Times. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock |
| Dewey: 781.66 |
| LCCN: 92-1651 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.64 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings together writers from a wide variety of fields to explore how rock & roll is made, consumed, and experienced in our time. In this collection, Greil Marcus creates a collage of words and pictures that evokes and explores Elvis Presley's grisly fate as an American cultural image, while Robert Palmer tells the gripping tale of the origins and meanings of the electric guitar. Rap music, MTV, and the issue of gender identity in the work of Bruce Springsteen all undergo thorough examination; rock & roll's complex relationship with the forces of censorship gets a remarkably fresh reading; and the mainstreaming of rock & roll in the 1980s is detailed and analyzed. And, in an interview with Laurie Anderson and an essay by Atlanta musician Jeff Calder, the artists speak for themselves. Contributors. Jeff Calder, Anthony DeCurtis, Mark Dery, Paul Evans, Glenn Gass, Trent Hill, Michael Jarrett, Alan Light, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, Robert B. Ray, Dan Rubey, David R. Shumway, Martha Nell Smith, Paul Smith |