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Present Tense : Rock and Roll and Culture by Anthony DeCurtis (1992, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822312654

ISBN-139780822312659

eBay Product ID (ePID)335949

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePresent Tense : Rock and Roll and Culture

SubjectPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Genres & Styles / Rock

Publication Year1992

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMusic

AuthorAnthony Decurtis

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.7 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN92-001651

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Ever since people started writing about rock, other people have made fun of them. Anthony DeCurtis's anthology, with its clutch of academics, rock writers and musicians, will strike cynics as inherently pretentious. They will be wrong: This is a smart, witty, ingeniously balanced assortment of rock commentary, with a healthy number of pieces that seem prescient and, even, moving."-John Rockwell, European Cultural Correspondent, The New York Times, "This collection is a useful and provocative addition to rock literature. Its collage of forms--scholarship, journalism, interviews, and fiction--allows access to a variety of readers, and provides a diverse forum for addressing the current consciousness about rock."--Andrew Ross, Princeton University, "This collection is a useful and provocative addition to rock literature. Its collage of forms-scholarship, journalism, interviews, and fiction-allows access to a variety of readers, and provides a diverse forum for addressing the current consciousness about rock."-Andrew Ross, Princeton University, "This collection brings together two of the cultural right's favorite targets--mass culture and high theory--and demonstrates brilliantly how mutually illuminating they can be as a way of understanding the American scene."--Stanley Fish, Duke University, "This shit rocks! To wit: Exhibiting a wide range of critical music writing, this collection speaks volumes about how music, and our varied perceptions of it, are intrinsically woven into the social and ideological web of end-of-the-century thought."--Michael Stipe, R.E.M., "Ever since people started writing about rock, other people have made fun of them. Anthony DeCurtis's anthology, with its clutch of academics, rock writers and musicians, will strike cynics as inherently pretentious. They will be wrong: This is a smart, witty, ingeniously balanced assortment of rock commentary, with a healthy number of pieces that seem prescient and, even, moving."--John Rockwell, European Cultural Correspondent, The New York Times "This collection brings together two of the cultural right's favorite targets--mass culture and high theory--and demonstrates brilliantly how mutually illuminating they can be as a way of understanding the American scene."--Stanley Fish, Duke University "This collection is a useful and provocative addition to rock literature. Its collage of forms--scholarship, journalism, interviews, and fiction--allows access to a variety of readers, and provides a diverse forum for addressing the current consciousness about rock."--Andrew Ross, Princeton University "This shit rocks! To wit: Exhibiting a wide range of critical music writing, this collection speaks volumes about how music, and our varied perceptions of it, are intrinsically woven into the social and ideological web of end-of-the-century thought."--Michael Stipe, R.E.M., "This shit rocks! To wit: Exhibiting a wide range of critical music writing, this collection speaks volumes about how music, and our varied perceptions of it, are intrinsically woven into the social and ideological web of end-of-the-century thought."-Michael Stipe, R.E.M., "Ever since people started writing about rock, other people have made fun of them. Anthony DeCurtis's anthology, with its clutch of academics, rock writers and musicians, will strike cynics as inherently pretentious. They will be wrong: This is a smart, witty, ingeniously balanced assortment of rock commentary, with a healthy number of pieces that seem prescient and, even, moving."--John Rockwell, European Cultural Correspondent, The New York Times, "This collection brings together two of the cultural right's favorite targets-mass culture and high theory-and demonstrates brilliantly how mutually illuminating they can be as a way of understanding the American scene."-Stanley Fish, Duke University

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.66

Table Of ContentPreface ix The Eighties / Anthony DeCurtis 1 The Church of the Sonic Guitar / Robert Palmer 13 The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s / Trent Hill 39 A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism / Greil Marcus 73 Why Don't We Do It in the Classroom? / Glenn Gass 93 Playing for England / Paul Smith 101 Rock & Roll as a Cultural Practice / David R. Shumway 117 Tracking / Robert B. Ray 135 Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson's Crisis of Meaning / Mark Dery 149 Concerning the Progress of Rock & Roll / Michael Jarrett 167 Los Angeles, 1999 / Paul Evans 183 Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary / Martha Nell Smith 197 About a Salary or Reality?- Rap's Recurrent Conflict / Alan Light 219 Voguing at the Carnival: Desire and Pleasure on MTV / Dan Rubey 235 Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock & Roll Band / Jeff Calder 271 Index 303 Notes on Contributors 315

SynopsisThe most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense , Anthony DeCurtis brings together writers from a wide variety of fields to explore how rock & roll is made, consumed, and experienced in our time. In this collection, Greil Marcus creates a collage of words and pictures that evokes and explores Elvis Presley's grisly fate as an American cultural image, while Robert Palmer tells the gripping tale of the origins and meanings of the electric guitar. Rap music, MTV, and the issue of gender identity in the work of Bruce Springsteen all undergo thorough examination; rock & roll's complex relationship with the forces of censorship gets a remarkably fresh reading; and the mainstreaming of rock & roll in the 1980s is detailed and analyzed. And, in an interview with Laurie Anderson and an essay by Atlanta musician Jeff Calder, the artists speak for themselves. Contributors . Jeff Calder, Anthony DeCurtis, Mark Dery, Paul Evans, Glenn Gass, Trent Hill, Michael Jarrett, Alan Light, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, Robert B. Ray, Dan Rubey, David R. Shumway, Martha Nell Smith, Paul Smith

LC Classification NumberML3534