Best music writing 2009 /
Presents a collection of essays and articles about music and its culture published in 2008, covering a diversity of music styles, including rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues and country.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Da Capo Press,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 1st Da Capo Press ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Guns n' Roses, Chinese democracy / Aidin Vaziri
- I will forever remain faithful : how Lil Wayne helped me survive my first year teaching in New Orleans / David Ramsey
- Terrorflu / Joshua Clover
- Mystery drain / Carrie Brownstein
- Unknown bards : the blues becomes transparent about itself / John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Bird-watcher : thinking about Charlie Parker, every day / David Remnick
- Researchers play tune recorded before Edison / Jody Rosen
- "Idol" banter : meet the boys / Ann Powers
- The eyeliner wars / Josh Eells
- Shit magnet / J. Bennett
- The tragedy of Britney Spears / Vanessa Grigoriadis
- Theoretically unpublished piece about girl talk, for a theoretical New York magazine kind of audience, give or take an ox on suicide watch / W. David Marx and Nick Sylvester
- Confessions of a DJ / Jace Clayton
- On difficulty / Michael Pisaro
- Your trusted source for music reviews / Carrie Brownstein
- Fly in the ointment (director's cut) / Jonathan Lethem
- Funk's death trip / Yuval Taylor
- Hey, Ludwig, grab yourself a pigfoot / Barry Gifford
- Unauthorized! : Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography / James Parker
- Bass is loaded / Jesse Serwer
- Who's biting J Dilla's beats ; An interview with J Dilla's mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey / Jeff Weiss
- The ear of the beholder / Rosanne Cash
- Branded! / Carrie Brownstein
- Crowd control / Wendy Lesser
- The rise and fall of the festive fifty / Tom Ewing
- Soul to soul / Rebecca Schoenkopf
- Pure country / Ken Tucker
- My mentor, my teacher / Stanley Booth
- That same small town in each of us / Charles Taylor
- Liner notes for the album reissue of The Replacements, Let it be / Gina Arnold
- This much I know : Edwyn Collins (singer, 48, London) / Michael Odell
- Six-word reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s : K through S / Paul Ford
- American dreamers : Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history / William Hogeland
- Every inch of my fun / Carrie Brownstein.