Shake it up : great American writing on rock and pop from Elvis to Jay Z /
"Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording ses...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Lethem, Jonathan, editor. Dettmar, Kevin J. H., 1958- editor. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2017] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
- From the Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music)
- Learning from the Beatles
- Goodbye Surfing, Hello God?
- Master of Mediocrity
- Outlaw Blues
- The Memphis Soul Sound
- From Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia
- The Best of Acappella
- From The Aesthetics of Rock
- Inside the Cages of the Zoo
- From the Disco Files
- Valley of the New York Dolls
- Where Were You When Elvis Died?
- In Defense of Rock Theory
- Prince
- The Cars' Power Steering
- Janis Joplin
- The Slits Go Native
- David Bowie Eats His Young
- From Hellfire
- Boys' Night Out: Aztec Camera Clicks
- The Power and the Glory
- King Solomon: The Throne in Exile
- Sylvia's Husband
- From The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
- The Ramones
- Jim Morrison Is Dead and Living in Hollywood
- From Route 666
- Houses of the Holy
- Sam Cooke's Night Beat
- From One Nation Under a Groove
- Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run
- Total Systems Failure
- From Fargo Rock City
- Seven Years in the Life
- From O.P.D. / Deus Est Vivus: The Beatles and the Death Cults
- Emo: Where the Girls Aren't
- From Live at the Apollo
- Ray Charles
- I Is Somebody Else
- The Final Comeback of Axl Rose
- In Praise of Assholes
- Say You Want a Revolution ...
- Michael
- The Runaways: Wild Thing
- Word: Jay-Z's decoded and the Language of Hip-Hop
- Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams: Punk Rock, Disco, New York City & the Triumph of the Rolling Stones' Some Girls
- After 30 Years, I Finally Went to a Barry Manilow Concert
- Guitar Drag
- Sources and Acknowledgments
- Index