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Books/ Writing about music
Hey guys,
a Professor asked me if I have any suggestions for a course called Music in Writing or something to that effect.
She mentioned Nick Hornsby, the Dylan Biography, and one about the roots of country music.
All I could think of was some Alan Lomax stuff, Land Where Blues Began, Woody Guthrie: a Life, and maybe something like the Child Ballads folk song collections, etc.
Any other ideas, I'd like this couse to be badass when I take it next semester.
Thanks.
Adam
a Professor asked me if I have any suggestions for a course called Music in Writing or something to that effect.
She mentioned Nick Hornsby, the Dylan Biography, and one about the roots of country music.
All I could think of was some Alan Lomax stuff, Land Where Blues Began, Woody Guthrie: a Life, and maybe something like the Child Ballads folk song collections, etc.
Any other ideas, I'd like this couse to be badass when I take it next semester.
Thanks.
Adam
I came across this:
http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available ... esis-1.pdf
a thesis on My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.
Haven't read it yet, but it sounds awesome!
Roy
http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available ... esis-1.pdf
a thesis on My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.
Haven't read it yet, but it sounds awesome!
Roy
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"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media,
and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful." -Kurt Vonnegut
"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media,
and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful." -Kurt Vonnegut
'psychotic reactions and carburator dung' - Lester Bangs
'feels like going home' - Peter Guralnick
'lipstick traces' - Greil Marcus
'really the blues' - Mezz Mezzrow
'up and down with the rolling stones' - Tony Sanchez
I don't know what I'd think of them now.. but, I liked 'em well enough at the time.
'feels like going home' - Peter Guralnick
'lipstick traces' - Greil Marcus
'really the blues' - Mezz Mezzrow
'up and down with the rolling stones' - Tony Sanchez
I don't know what I'd think of them now.. but, I liked 'em well enough at the time.
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If you want to be a badass, here's my highbrow recommendation: "Composers on Music" edited by Josiah Fisk. I strongly recommend it as quick reading (eg, bathroom reading) It covers from Hildegard von Bingen (almost 1000 years ago) through to Karlheinz Stockhausen and others still living. Sorry, no Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly or anything like that in there. Just dead white males who used staff paper.
My lowbrow recommendation: Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City", or anything else by Chuck Klosterman. Fucking brilliant stuff.
I second the Lester Bangs, and I strongly second the recent Bob Dylan book. Don't bother with Greil Marcus or Richard Meltzer. IMO, those are the ultimate in dull pseudoacademic fluff. I think that Meltzer book was originally written as a satire anyway. It will make you sleepy.
Finally, W.A. Mathieu's books are a bit new-agey, but fantastic reading nonetheless on the feelings end of music performance. I recommend "The Musical Life". You won't find anything in there to scratch your Folkways itch, nor will you find anything on mic placement, but you will get a good dose of reflection on the relation between music and the human spirit (if you care about such things as the human spirit)
My lowbrow recommendation: Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City", or anything else by Chuck Klosterman. Fucking brilliant stuff.
I second the Lester Bangs, and I strongly second the recent Bob Dylan book. Don't bother with Greil Marcus or Richard Meltzer. IMO, those are the ultimate in dull pseudoacademic fluff. I think that Meltzer book was originally written as a satire anyway. It will make you sleepy.
Finally, W.A. Mathieu's books are a bit new-agey, but fantastic reading nonetheless on the feelings end of music performance. I recommend "The Musical Life". You won't find anything in there to scratch your Folkways itch, nor will you find anything on mic placement, but you will get a good dose of reflection on the relation between music and the human spirit (if you care about such things as the human spirit)
i'll add a few to the WMWUSF (they're not all dead, and for sure some of them didn't use much staff paper) list, with an american bent:Tatertot wrote:If you want to be a badass, here's my highbrow recommendation: "Composers on Music" edited by Josiah Fisk. I strongly recommend it as quick reading (eg, bathroom reading) It covers from Hildegard von Bingen (almost 1000 years ago) through to Karlheinz Stockhausen and others still living. Sorry, no Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly or anything like that in there. Just dead white males who used staff paper.
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