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It's just the normal noises : Marcus, Guralnick, No depression, and the mystery of Americana music / Timothy Gray.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3785 .G73 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Timothy, 1964- author.
- Series:
- New American canon
- The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- No depression.
- Musical criticism--United States.
- Musical criticism.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Americana (Music).
- United States.
- Americana (Music)--History and criticism.
- Marcus, Greil--Criticism and interpretation.
- Marcus, Greil.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Guralnick, Peter--Criticism and interpretation.
- Guralnick, Peter.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. In It's Just the Normal Noises, Timothy Gray examines a wide array of writing about roots music from the 1960s to the present. In addition to chapters on the genre-defining work of Guralnick and Marcus, he explores the influential writings of Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, the editors of No Depression magazine, and the writers who contributed to its pages, Bill Friskics-Warren, Ed Ward, David Cantwell, and Allison Stewart among them. A host of memoirists and novelists, from Patti Smith and Ann Powers to Eleanor Henderson and Dana Spiotta, shed light on the social effects and personal attachments of the music's many manifestations, from punk to alt country to hardcore. This book is for everyone who's heard in roots rock the sound of an individual and a nation singing themselves into being. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Hip Americana: The Cultural Criticism of Greil Marcus 17
- 2 "Life's Little Ups and Downs": Peter Guralnick and Roots Biography 51
- 3 "Searching for a Truer Sound": No Depression Magazine 92
- 4 "Learning to Live on Your Own": Growing Up in DIY America 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781609384883
- 1609384881
- OCLC:
- 960717956
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