Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More - Brossura

Schafer, Ben; Hornby, Nick

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ISBN 10: 0306810662 ISBN 13: 9780306810664

Casa editrice: Da Capo Press, 2001

Riassunto

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. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Nick Hornby is the author of the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to Be Good and a memoir, Fever Pitch. He also writes about music for the New Yorker. He lives in London.

Product Description:

The year's best essays and articles on music as selected by Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity. Welcome to the second volume in an exciting annual series that celebrates the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Nick Hornby, creator of the most famously music-obsessed hero in contemporary fiction. Covering the gamut of contemporary music styles, he has chosen pieces from a dizzying array of sources on topics that range from hip-hop on ecstasy and Cuban rappers to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and MerleFest. The writers will include such distinguished veterans and bright new talents as: Courtney Love, Camden Joy, Rick Moody, Anthony DeCurtis, William Gay, Gary Giddins, M. Doughty, Eddie Dean, Richard Meltzer, Whitney Balliett, David Bowman, Ann Powers, Chuck D:Featuring the smartest, edgiest, richest, funniest, and just plain best work of the year, this collection is a must-have for music lovers and lovers of great writing alike.

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• Editore: Da Capo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0306810662
• ISBN 13: 9780306810664
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Schafer Ben, Hornby Nick