Out of the vinyl deeps : Ellen Willis on rock music
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書誌事項
Out of the vinyl deeps : Ellen Willis on rock music
University of Minnesota Press, c2011
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New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
注記
Chiefly essays originally published in The New Yorker magazine, 1968-1975
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In 1968, the New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first popular music critic. Her column, Rock, Etc., ran for seven years and established Willis as a leader in cultural commentary and a pioneer in the nascent and otherwise male-dominated field of rock criticism. As a writer for a magazine with a circulation of nearly half a million, Willis was also the country\u2019s most widely read rock critic. With a voice at once sharp, thoughtful, and ecstatic, she covered a wide range of artists-Bob Dylan, The Who, Van Morrison, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joni Mitchell, the Velvet Underground, Sam and Dave, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Wonder-assessing their albums and performances not only on their originality, musicianship, and cultural impact but also in terms of how they made her feel. Because Willis stopped writing about music in the early 1980s-when, she felt, rock \u2019n\u2019 roll had lost its political edge-her significant contribution to the history and reception of rock music has been overshadowed by contemporary music critics like Robert Christgau, Lester Bangs, and Dave Marsh. Out of the Vinyl Deeps collects for the first time Willis\u2019s Rock, Etc. columns and her other writings about popular music from this period (including liner notes for works by Lou Reed and Janis Joplin) and reasserts her rightful place in rock music criticism. More than simply setting the record straight, Out of the Vinyl Deeps reintroduces Willis\u2019s singular approach and style-her use of music to comment on broader social and political issues, critical acuity, vivid prose, against-the-grain opinions, and distinctly female (and feminist) perspective-to a new generation of readers. Featuring essays by the New Yorker\u2019s current popular music critic, Sasha Frere-Jones, and cultural critics Daphne Carr and Evie Nagy, this volume also provides a lively and still relevant account of rock music during, arguably, its most innovative period.
目次
Foreword: Opening the Vault Sasha Frere-Jones
Introduction: Wake-up Call Nona Willis Aronowitz
Before the Flood: "Dylan," from Cheetah (1967)
1. The World-Class Critic
"Two Soul Albums" (November 1968)
"The Who Sell" (July 1969)
"Songs of Innocence and Experience" (February 1970)
"'New Morning': Dylan Revisited" (December 1970)
"Breaking the Vinyl Barrier" (July 1971)
"Morrison Live" (June 1972)
"`Elvis Presley? In Person?'" (July 1972)
"Bowie's Limitations" (October 1972)
"Frankenstein at the Waldorf" (November 197 )
"The Rolling Stones Now" (December 197 )
"The Best of '74" (January 1975)
Liner notes from Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Diary, 1967-1980 (1980)
"The Velvet Underground," from Greil Marcus's Stranded (1979)
"The Decade in Rock Lyrics," from Village Voice (January 1980)
"The New Talking World War III Blues," from Salon.com (2001)
2. The Adoring Fan
"The Big Ones" (February 1969)
"East versus West" (July 1971)
"Their Generation" (August 1971)
"Yesterday's Papers" (August 1972)
"Creedence As Therapy" (September 1972)
"Believing Bette Midler, Mostly" (December 197 )
"Dylan and Fans: Looking Back, Going On" (February 1974)
"The Abyss," from Village Voice (June 1979)
3. The Sixties Loyalist
"Pop Ecumenicism" (May 1968)
"Randy Newman" (August 1971)
"George and John" (February 1971)
"Consumer Revolt" (September 1971)
"My Grand Funk Problem-and Ours" (February 1972)
"Into the Seventies, for Real" (December 1972)
"Roseland Nation" (October 197 )
"Sympathy for the Stones" (July 1975)
"Creedence Clearwater Revival," from Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll (1980)
"Janis Joplin," from Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll (1980)
Selections from "Don't Turn Your Back on Love," Liner Notes to Janis, a Janis Joplin Box Set (199 )
4. The Feminist
"But Now I'm Gonna Move" (October 1971)
"Joni Mitchell: Still Traveling" (March 197 )
"Women's Music" (June 1974)
"After the Flood" (April 1975)
"Beginning to See the Light," Village Voice (1977)
Preface to Barbara O'Dair's Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock (1997)
5. The Navigator
"Newport: You Can't Go Down Home Again" (August 1968)
"The Scene, 1968" (November 1968)
"Summer of Love in Queens" (July 1969)
"Elvis in Las Vegas" (August 1969)
"The Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning" (September 1969)
"Stranger in a Strange Land" (December 1969)
"The Return of the Dolls" (January 197 )
"San Francisco Habitat" (August 197 )
6. The Sociologist
"Pop Blues" (April 1968)
"The Ordeal of Moby Grape" (June 1968)
"The Star, the Sound, and the Scene" (July 1968)
"Roots" (February 1969)
"Dylan's Anti-Surprise" (April 1969)
"Elliott Murphy's White Middle Class Blues" (February 1974)
"Mott the Hoople: Playing the Loser's Game" (May 1974)
"Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent, and the Street Kid Myth" (November 1974)
"The Importance of Stevie Wonder" (December 1974)
Introduction to Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock 'n' Roll (1981)
Afterword: Raise Your Hand Daphne Carr and Evie Nagy
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