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Author: Robert ChristgauPublisher: Harvard Univ Pr
ISBN-10: 0674443187Subject: Performing Arts
ISBN-13: 9780674443181Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 1998Condition: Good
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To know Robert Christgau's articles in New York's free weekly newspaper the Village Voice is to encounter the breadth of rock music--good and bad--from certified pop stars like Janet Jackson to arguably certifiable British punk rockers the Mekons. Both the wildly successful Ms. Jackson and the improbably impecunious Mekons are given equal time in Christgau's entertaining, perceptive, and engaging compendium of three decades of articles, essays, and reviews, GROWN UP ALL WRONG. Christgau is one of the great opinionated critics of rock & roll, though he rarely intellectualizes the fun out of either the music or his writing. Over the course of these erudite examinations of the careers, albums, and philosophies of some 70 artists a history of contemporary music begins to emerge, from its early days in the 1950s, represented by Nat "King" Cole (Christgau's opinion is that pop music changed forever around 1955) to '90s manifestations like Nirvana and PJ Harvey. Along the way there are digressions on the wider meaning of post-Iron Curtain Czech rockers Pulnoc and the Moroccan Master Musicians of Jajouka that you won't find in any other collection of rock & roll criticism--and neither will you find as much to engage, irritate, and enthuse you.

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Length:495 pages
Height:9.8 in.
Width:6.5 in.
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Weight:31.2 oz.

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Essays by the senior music critic at The Village Voice demonstrate the versatility, keen perception, and occasionally brutal honesty of one of pop music criticism's best and most well-known practitioners. Christgau profiles the most influential artists of the times, from the 1950's to 90's hip-hop and beyond-- with an eye toward both their achievements and their frailties.
Rock, punk, hip-hop, and world beat: this is the music of the second half of the 20th century, skillfully framed in the work of a writer whose reach, insight, and perfect pitch make him one of the major cultural critics of our time.

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"Not knowing Sylvester from Coolio, I'm inclined to enthuse about Robert Christgau's intelligence, humor, and style, which straddles the vernacular and the high-falutin like nobody's business. But when I read his discourses on music I do know (more than half of GROWN UP ALL WRONG, happily), all that recedes before the fact that he is a sage critic who breathes music and can get to the nub of any performance, allowing the reader to hear almost as insightfully as he does."
www.hup.harvard.edu - Gary Giddins 

"Christgau's characteristic passion and humor, historical analysis and personal insight are at their best. This volume shows that rock criticism has grown up to be broader and deeper then anyone imagined when wild verbiage, polemical disputation and lofty thoughts first thrilled readers 30 years ago."
Los Angeles Times - Jon Wiener 

"Since the sixties, when he conceived rock criticism as a glorious expressive form free of high-art headaches, Robert Christgau has interrogated pop music with self-invented rigor. A critic and editor for more than twenty years at the Village Voice, Christgau propels a thorny complex of aesthetics, business and politics into his own Formula One commentary...GROWN UP ALL WRONG discusses seventy-five artists in a collection of essays. They fall into groups about pioneers (Nat 'King' Cole, Elvis), Sixties legends (Hendrix, Aretha) and Seventies phenoms (Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder); other sections highlight punk, hip-hop and pop. The book ends warmly, with looks at Neil Young, George Clinton and Al Green, all of whom, like Christgau, are now in their fifties and wide awake."
Rolling Stone - James Hunter 

"When Christgau is good...he's a stimulating idea man. His curiosity is boundless, he has a formidable knowledge of a wide range of genres, and his insights on everyone from Chuck Berry to Sleater-Kinney are enough to make every other music journalist bow down in envy."
Chicago Tribune - Greg Kot 

"[The author] writes on each with equal erudition, examining the artists and their music as both cultural products and influences. No pop act is too weird, arty, commercial or schlocky for Christgau's contemplation...The result is brilliant."
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Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0674443187
Title : Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno
EAN : 9780674443181
Authors : Robert Christgau
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Publication Date : 1998-11-15
Pages : 512
List Price (MSRP) : 32.50
Height : 1.5300 inches
Width : 6.4900 inches
Length : 9.5800 inches
Weight : 1.9700 pounds
Keywords : Entertainment: Music: General, Entertainment: Pop Culture: Music: General, History & Criticism, Popular, Rock, Theory, Composition & Performance, Music, 1945 - Present, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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