How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs With Advice from Industry-Leading Writers - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1628920432 ISBN 13: 9781628920437

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2015

Riassunto

If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichés (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers on what is perhaps our most universally beloved art form. Selections from the critically-acclaimed 33 1/3 series appear alongside new interviews and insights from authors like Lester Bangs, Chuck Klosterman, Owen Pallet, Ann Powers and Alex Ross.

How to Write About Music includes primary sources of inspiration from a variety of go-to genres such as the album review, the personal essay, the blog post and the interview along with tips, writing prompts and advice from the writers themselves.

Music critics of the past and the present offer inspiration through their work on artists like Black Sabbath, Daft Punk, J Dilla, Joy Division, Kanye West, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Pussy Riot and countless others. How to Write About Music is an invaluable text for all those who have ever dreamed of getting their music writing published and a pleasure for everyone who loves to read about music.

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Recensione:

Collection of great long and short pieces on (pop) music, profiles, analyses and personal reactions; practical manual for breaking into a challenging and protean business; text for a cool college course; all-star lineup of contemporary music writers; models for venues from your own blog to the New Yorker; thing to dip into for bite-size bits of advice How To Write About Music is, as the Dead Boys never quite put it, all this (and more). Highlights include Chuck Klosterman's interview how-to, Susan Fast's exegesis of Dangerous, Alex Ross's Radiohead, and, and, and the volume draws on the 33 1/3 books without being in thrall to them, and it introduces many styles and many tastes it's hard to imagine a better place to start.
- Stephen Burt, Professor of English, Harvard University, USA

All killer and no filler How to Write About Music is crammed full of stylistically diverse excerpts and stellar advice from the world s leading music writers. From Tavi Gevinson s chit-chatty Taylor Swift defense to Susan Fast s benchmark 33 1/3 proposal on Michael Jackson; students, bloggers and experienced critics alike are sure to find plenty of inspiration. Innovative, accessible and organized like a lovingly compiled mix tape, How to Write About Music will have you jiving around The Shard in no time.
- Samantha Bennett, Senior Lecturer, The Australian National University, Australia

The best critics make it look easy, but figuring out how and why music works on us why certain sounds and melodies can incite ecstasy or devastation is extraordinarily tough work. This smartly compiled primer, the first of its kind, is jammed full of priceless advice on how to make it happen. - Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World s Rarest 78rpm Records The long-running 33 1/3 series is branching out from its usual pocket-sized, album-by-album format to round up some of the best writing about writing from the sharpest minds in the business. --- Fact Mag

L'autore:

Marc Woodworth is a Lecturer in the English department at Skidmore College, USA, and Associate Editor of Salmagundi Magazine.

Ally-Jane Grossan is editor of the 33 1/3 series published by Bloomsbury.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1628920432
• ISBN 13: 9781628920437
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 415
• Redattore: Woodworth Marc, Grossan Ally-Jane