Let's talk about love : why other people have such bad taste / Carl Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Carl, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dion, Celine--Criticism and interpretation.

Dion, Celine.

Dion, Celine. Let's talk about love.

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Popular culture--21st century.

Popular culture.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

[New and Expanded edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : London : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love , Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while millions of fans around the world adore her ""huge pipes"" and even bigger feelings. How can anyone say which side is right? This new, expanded edition goes even further, calling on thirteen prominen

Contents:

Part one: Let's talk about love: a journey to the end of taste / Carl Wilson

Let's talk about hate

Let's talk about pop (and its critics)

Let's talk in French

Let's talk about world conquest

Let's talk about schmaltz

Let's sing really loud

Let's talk about taste

Let's talk about who's got bad taste

Let's talk with some fans

Let's do a punk version of "My heart will go on" (or, let's talk about our feelings)

Let's talk about let's talk about love

Let's talk about love

Part two: Essays: What we talk about when we talk about love. Introduction / Carl Wilson

The artists we deserve / Nick Hornby

With the lights on, it's less useless / Krist Novoselic

If the girls were all transported / Ann Powers

The easiest thing to forget / Mary Gaitskill

Compared to what? / Jason King

Let's talk about Diana Ross / Daphne A. Brooks

Deep in the game / Drew Daniel

Children of the corn / Sukhdev Sandhu

Acting in and out of context / James Franco

Too much sociology / Marco Roth and the editors of n+1

Giving up on giving up on good taste / Jonathan Sterne

When I come home / Owen Pallett

Playlist: let's listen to love / Sheila Heti

Part three: Afterword. Let's talk later / Carl Wilson.

Notes:

Part I : Let's talk about love: a journey to the end of taste was originally published by Continuum, 2007.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4411-8356-6

1-62356-328-3

OCLC:

1138028760