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Present tense : rock & roll and culture / edited by Anthony DeCurtis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock music--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings together writers from a wide variety of fields to explore how rock & roll is made, consumed, and experienced in our time.In this collection, Greil Marcus creates a collage of words and pictures that evokes and explores Elvis Presley's grisly fate as an American cultural image, while Rob
- Contents:
- The Eighties / Anthony DeCurtis
- The Church of the Sonic Guitar / Robert Palmer
- The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s / Trent Hill
- A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism / Greil Marcus
- Why Don't We Do It in the Classroom? / Glenn Gass
- Playing for England / Paul Smith
- Rock and Roll as a Cultural Practice / David R. Shumway
- Tracking / Robert B. Ray
- Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson's Crisis of Meaning / Mark Dery
- Concerning the Progress of Rock and Roll / Michael Jarrett
- Los Angeles, 1999 / Paul Evans
- Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary / Martha Nell Smith
- About a Salary or Reality? - Rap's Recurrent Conflict / Alan Light
- Voguing at the Carnival: Desire and Pleasure on MTV / Dan Rubey
- Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock and Roll Band / Jeff Calder.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06261-5
- 9786613062611
- 0-8223-8222-9
- OCLC:
- 191222327
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