Best Music Writing 2009Greil Marcus, Daphne Carr Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year's most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it's appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, Like a Rolling Stone, and other groundbreaking excursions into the very fabric of music, America, and beyond. As always, Series Editor Daphne Carr has culled an impressively wide range of essays, profiles, news articles, interviews, creative non-fiction, fiction, book reviews, long-format reviews, blog posts, and journal articles on music and music culture, from rock and hip-hop to R&B and jazz to pop, blues, and more. Writers who have been published in Best Music Writing include Alex Ross, Jonathan Lethem, Ann Powers, Dave Eggers, Susan Orlean, and more. |
Contents
AIDIN VAZIRI 1 | 1 |
DAVID RAMSEY 3 | 3 |
JOSHUA CLOVER 15 | 15 |
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN 26 | 26 |
JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN 29 | 29 |
DAVID REMNICK 54 | 54 |
JODY ROSEN 80 | 80 |
ANN POWERS 86 | 86 |
J BENNETT 98 | 98 |
VANESSA GRIGORIADIS 115 | 115 |
W DAVID MARX AND NICK SYLVESTER 142 | 142 |
JACE CLAYTON 160 | 160 |
MICHAEL PISARO 174 | 174 |
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN 180 | 180 |
JONATHAN LETHEM 183 | 183 |
YUVAL TAYLOR 189 | 189 |
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