A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer
By (Author) Richard Meltzer
Hachette Books
Da Capo Press Inc
14th April 2000
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Literary essays
818.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
608
Width 227mm, Height 153mm, Spine 35mm
794g
Description
A Da Capo original: Thirty years' worth of music writing by one of the first and greatest rock scribes and a fiercely imaginative cultural critic.. He is one of the inventors of rock criticism. His first book, The Aesthetics of Rock (acclaimed by Greil Marcus as "a disemboweling of rock's soft white underbelly"), became an instant cult classic when published in 1970. And for the next thirty years he fearlessly expanded the boundaries of music writing. Now he has collected the best of his prodigious output into a gonzo sampler of the reviews, profiles, interviews, and essays that form the heart of his rockwriter legacy. Traveling from psychedelia to the "dinosaur-rot early '70s" to the redeeming majesty of punk and the constant solace of jazz, this will stand as a remarkable document of an era by a singular voice in music writing.
Author Bio
Richard Meltzer is the author of over a dozen books, including A Whore Just Like the Rest-winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award-and innumerable articles. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
