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Let it blurt : the life and times of Lester Bangs, America's greatest rock critic / Jim DeRogatis.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML423.B245 D47 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeRogatis, Jim
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bangs, Lester.
- Music critics--United States--Biography.
- Music critics.
- Rock music--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Broadway Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- "Let It Blurt is the biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82) - the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk. He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beef-heart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The Bangs Family Tree
- ch. 1. The Closed Circle
- ch. 2. Birth of the Cool
- ch. 3. Drug Punk
- ch. 4. Make It or Break It
- ch. 5. Boy Howdy!
- ch. 6. Stay Alive 'Til '75
- ch. 7. I Heard Her Call My Name
- ch. 8. Tender Vittles
- ch. 9. There's Man in There
- ch. 10. Jook Savage on the Brazos
- ch. 11. All My Friends Are Hermits
- ch. 12. Ignore That Door
- app. 1. How to Be a Rock Critic: A Megatonic Journey with Lester Bangs
- app. 2. Selected Lyrics by Lester Bangs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-317) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: DeRogatis, Jim. Let it blurt.
- ISBN:
- 0385496737
- 9780385496735
- 0767905091
- 9780767905091
- OCLC:
- 41944708
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