Best Music Writing 2007 2007
The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-hop, Jazz, Pop, Country and More
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 23. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-306-81561-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the eighth in the series of annual collections celebrating the best in music writing on every style of music. "Da Capo Best Music Writing" has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort - novelists, poets, journalists, musicians - are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.
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Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-306-81561-4 (9780306815614)
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Persons
Robert Christgau is the author of the collections Growing Up All Wrong and Any Old Way You Choose It. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a music critic for NPR's "All Things Considered". He lives in New York City. Daphne Carr is a music journalist, critic and scholar who is pursuing a PhD in ethnomusicology at Columbia University. She is the author of Pretty Hate Machine and her work appears regularly in the Associated Press, Village Voice and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.