Dancing in your head : jazz, blues, rock, and beyond / Gene Santoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santoro, Gene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book gathers Santoro's liveliest reviews and essays for the first time, introducing a fresh and provocative perspective on several decades of musicians and their work. This book offers reflections on the evolution of jazz, rock and roll, and rap. As music columnist for The Nation, Gene Santoro has established himself as an important new critical voice, able to write well on a broad spectrum of popular music and jazz, without losing touch with the cutting edge of today's music scene. Dancing in Your Head gathers Santoro's liveliest reviews and essays for the first time, introducing a fresh and provocative perspective on several decades of musicians and their work. From the legendary blues singer Robert Johnson to Miles Davis and James Brown, from the sounds of Neil Young and Lou Reed to Public Enemy's controversial rap lyrics, this books offers sharp and honest reflections on the evolution of jazz, rock and roll, and rap.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Phonograph Blues

2. Hellhound on His Trail

3. Lift Every Voice and Sing

4. Doing It to Death

5. Take It to the River

6. Born on the Bayou

7. New Orleans's Hidden Treasures

8. Soul Queen of New Orleans

9. Uptown

10. Country Comforts

11. Androgyne with a Lariat

12. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

13. Austin's Eraserhead

14. The Layla Sessions

15. Beckology

16. Rockin' in the Free World

17. Still Alive: The Grateful Dead

18. New York Lou

19. On the Border

20. Payola Guys

21. Turn On Your Love Light

22. Rock Vaudeville

23. Good Day at Black Rock

24. The Godfathers of Rap

25. Don't Believe the Hype

26. Mr. Ambience

27. Them Ol' Bahamas Blues

28. Dancing in Your Head

29. The Blackwell Project

30. E.S.P.

31. Rolling with the Tape

32. The Serpent's Tooth

33. Prince of Darkness

34. Notes from Underground

35. Hidden Histories

36. Gunther Schuller's Memory Palace

37. Preservation Hall Comes to Carnegie

38. Nature Boy

39. The Two Oscars

40. The Gypsy King

41. The Wizard of Waukesha

42. A Box of Mr. Overdub

43. Collier's Ellington Follies

44. Epitaph

45. Mingus's Sancho Panza

46. Rahsaan to the Moon

47. Space Is the Place

48. Surfing on the Keys

49. Music by Association

50. Unplugging the Enlightenment

51. Child Is Father to the Music

52. In and Out of the Tradition

53. The Knitting Factory

54. Monk Goes Downtown

55. The Nurturer

56. The Clark Kent of the Electric Guitar

57. Downtown Scenes

58. Fractured Fairy Tales

59. Caos Totale

60. On the Street Where You Live

61. East Village Jumpcuts

62. Naked City

63. A Star Is Made

64. Master of Tributes

65. The Big Apple Avant-garde

Index

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G

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K

L

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N

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Notes:

Originally published: 1994.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-802408-8

1-280-45185-8

0-19-535642-X

1-60256-092-7

OCLC:

437154782