Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) [Paperback]

Greil Marcus (Editor), Daphne Carr (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Da Capo Best Music Writing | Publication Date: October 13, 2009

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

USAToday.com’s Pop Candy Blog, PopMatters
“I look forward to it every year!”

USA Today
“[P]ieces examine the music world in a social context, which makes for a challenging, and engaging, read.”

USAToday.com’s Pop Candy blog
“[Y]ou really should get the book, which is one of my favorite annual compilations.”

BooklistOnline
“…essential, as usual.”

Music Media Monthly, June 2010
“A can’t-put-it-down survey… [it] admirably fills in the blanks, explains, cajoles, reveres and lambasts the music culture and the artists who define contemporary popular music—today and as we’ve come to know it.”

About the Author

Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Daphne Carr is a music journalist and scholar who lives in Manhattan and can be found on the Web at funboring.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; 10 Anv edition (October 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306817829
• ISBN-13: 978-0306817823
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daphne Carr is an Ohio-born, Youngstown-Allentown raised author now living in New York City. She is co-founding a music-focused independent press with Tobias Carroll. Find out more at funboring dot com.

Daphne has written cultural criticism and journalism for a number of magazines, alternative newspapers, and websites, and has been the series editor of Best Music Writing since 2006. She is the co-founder of GirlGroup, a listserv for and about women music writers, and an educator at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn, NY.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great book with Kindle formatting issues., November 12, 2010

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This review is from: Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) (Kindle Edition)

I own most every year of this series and look forward to each new issue. 2008 was the first issue I read on my Kindle. Every now and then a book isn't ideal on the Kindle. This one has a story entitled "Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s.. ". I go to SXSW every year and really looked forward to reading this article. It is unreadable, period. The printed book had tables, formatted horizontally, of reviews which look like they were scanned into the Kindle edition. They are virtually unreadable and when you turn the Kindle to read them, it rotates the page to horizontal mode, compressing them and again orienting them away from the reader. Argh! Totally frustrating and totally useless. If you don't mind skipping this story (which I am still P.O.'ed enough about to write this review!), then it's a great collection (again), so go ahead and get the Kindle edition.