Books written by Eric Weisbard
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Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music
Forgive me if your name was inadvertently omitted, but beyond those already mentioned here are at least a few: Daphne Brooks, Joshua Clover, Drew Daniel, Joel Dinerstein, Alice Echols, Robert Fink, Holly George-Warren, ...
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Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music
Joel Dinerstein's retitling, Swinging the Machine, saw an “aesthetics of acceleration” in a line from the architect Le Corbusier: “The Negroes of the USA have breathed into jazz the song, the rhythm and the sound of machines.
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Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914– 1991 (Michael Joseph, 1994), 304; Jivani, It's Not Unusual, 184–94; Weeks, World We Have Won, 17–18; John Sweeney, “The Sun and the Star,” Independent, February 11, ...
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Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt
Comunicando Hace una hora que te estoy llamando Me llamo el teléfono tratando de inventar comunicación hace buen rato que no hablo con mi amor lo necesito pide a gritos el corazón comunica comunícate Comunicando hace horas que te estoy ...
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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
Here's where my American history--and yours--goes to find itself."--Jonathan Lethem, author of "You Don't Love Me Yet"
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Spin Alternative Record Guide
America's premiere alternative music magazine presents a book of outrageously opinionated reviews of the essential albums of punk, new wave, indie rock, grunge, and rap. Its abundantly illustrated, full-color pages...
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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
At that time in New Orleans—still in active maritime communication with the port of Havana—the Cuban feel was well established, to say the least, and not only in the music of Professor Longhair. The Hawketts' 1954 ''Mardi Gras Mambo ...
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Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II
In this book, Eric Weisbard shows how the album has matured into a work whose baroque excesses now have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament ...
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This is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project
A range of genres, rooted in local impulses, reaching global audiences; a main prop of commercial culture and an art form open to aspirants and fans from every background: About...
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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
Collection of essays on the history of pop music.
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Hound Dog
In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem.