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Collector's paradise / Allen Ruppersberg.
LIBRA ML89 .R87 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944- compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944---Exhibitions.
- Ruppersberg, Allen.
- Sound recordings--United States--Catalogs.
- Sound recordings.
- Rock music--United States--History and criticism--Exhibitions.
- Rock music.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism--Exhibitions.
- Popular music.
- Music title pages--United States--History--Exhibitions.
- Music title pages.
- Vernacular photography--United States--Exhibitions.
- Vernacular photography.
- Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944-.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944-.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- No time left to start again, the B (birth) and D (death) of R'n'R
- No time left to start again, the B and D of R'n'R
- No time left to start again
- Place of Publication:
- [New York?] : Christine Burgin, [2012]
- Summary:
- Collector's Paradise is Allen Ruppersberg's unique reflection on the history of popular American music. The product of years of combing flea markets and yard sales in search of both the visual and recorded history of rock and roll, this book traces rock and roll back to the Minstrel days and American popular song post-Civil War, in a chronological list of 1,500 key recordings and more than 300 color illustrations of material from Ruppersberg's collection. In his introductory essay, Ruppersberg discusses the urgency he feels in creating this narrative of a common musical history before it is lost: If you live long enough you begin to see the endings of the things in which you saw the beginnings. "It seemed to me ... that this was the last possible moment to be able to gather any of this material in the manner I did and I am even more convinced now that I was right."
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- "The book ... takes the form of a collectors' catalogue or magazine. The selection and listing by year of the top 1,500 records ... represents not only my personal choices as to which are the best records in and of themselves but which can also stand as a history of American recorded music"--Page 3.
- "All images from the collection of Allen Ruppersburg. Published at the time of the exhibition Allen Ruppersberg: No Time Left to Start Again / The B and D of R 'n' R, The Art Institute of Chicago, September 21, 2012-January 6, 2013"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0977869652
- 9780977869657
- OCLC:
- 822894713
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