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An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn Paperback – January 1, 1898

by Alan Licht (Author)

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76 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Drag City
Publication date

January 1, 1898
Dimensions

5.5 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches
ISBN-10

0965618331
ISBN-13

978-0965618335
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Despite the title's invocation of the early MTV "VJ," this book is nothing less than a treatise on the decline and fall of rock music as a viable artistic and cultural medium and an enormously smart and entertaining one at that. Licht is a highly regarded guitarist, from his work with late '80s slack rockers Love Child (which included later gURL founder Rebecca Odes) to his collaborations with many of experimental music's leading lights, including Loren Mazzacane Connors. He divides the book into two essay-length sections. The first establishes Licht's demographic his first hits of Quinn-era MTV were during his middle school years in suburban New Jersey and quickly moves on to dead-on, song-by-song reconsiderations of the channel's fodder at the time: "Thompson Twins, `Lies': More good pop from three bad haircuts." Section two recreates the now-defunct genre of New York rock and the institutions that supported it, from CBGB to the New Music Distribution Service, linking its demise to gentrification. Licht then brilliantly explicates the "Clintonization of Rock," whereby rock explicitly dropped its us-against-them attitude in a manner exactly analogous to Clinton's cutting and pasting of liberal, conservative and populist issues and ideas with equal parts Kennedy, Carter and FDR; the result, Licht argues, was grunge. Written for survivors of the '80s and '90s rock scene and for anyone who cares about popular music and wants it to mean something, this little b&w book, with its wry and rueful looks back yet open and hopeful looks forward, may help shape a small rock renaissance. (May
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Drag City (January 1, 1898)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 76 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0965618331
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0965618335
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches

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J. G. Lewis

Indifferent Account of 'The Decline of Rock'

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 8, 2014

Mr. Licht did not do a very fine analysis here of Rock's last 30 years, going back to circa 1985. Though his general conclusions are good, the manner he reached them were much too detailed and remote, not to mention poorly written. And even the conclusions themselves were not fully elaborated: I see this book as almost a rough draft of what should be a final copy. Recommended only for those highly knowledgeable already about those times, and the music.