This Is Pop

cluttered with treasures as a good music store.

Introduction: Who'll Write the Book of Love? Pop Music and Pop Prose

1

(14)

ERIC WEISBARD

I. Narratives

1. "And I Guess It Doesn't Matter Any More": European Thoughts on American Music

15

(11)

SIMON FRITH

2. U.S. and Them: Are American Pop (and Semi-Pop) Still Exceptional? And By the Way, Does That Make Them Better?

26

(13)

ROBERT CHRISTGAU

3. How Come Jazz Isn't Dead?

39

(17)

GARY GIDDINS

4. Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Prehistory of "Women in Rock"

56

(12)

GAYLE WALD

5. The Birth of the Blues

68

(7)

LUC SANTE

6. Richard Speaks! Chasing a Tune from the Chitlin Circuit to the Mormon Tabernacle

75

(15)

R J SMITH

7. Interrupted Symphony: A Recollection of Movie Music from Max Steiner to Marvin Gaye

90

(13)

GEOFFREY O'BRIEN

8. Burnt Sugar: Post-Soul Satire and Rock Memory

103

(16)

DAPHNE A. BROOKS

II. Authorship

9. Bits of Me Scattered Everywhere: Ray Davies and the Kinks

119

(26)

ROBERT POLITO

10. Authenticity, Gender, and Personal Voice: She Sounds So Sad, Do You Think She Really Is?

145

(10)

SARAH DOUGHER

11. All the Memories Money Can Buy: Marketing Authenticity and Manufacturing Authorship

155

(18)

DAVID SANJEK

12. Authorship Meets Downpression: Translating the Wailers into Rock

173

(14)

JASON TOYNBEE

13. Creativity and Band Dynamics

187

(13)

DEENA WEINSTEIN

14. "O Secret Stars Stay Secret": Rock and Roll in Contemporary Poetry

200

(12)

STEPHEN BURT

15. Compressing Pop: How Your Favorite Song Got Squished

212

(11)

DOUGLAS WOLK

16. Rapping about Rapping: The Rise and Fall of a Hip-Hop Tradition

223

(12)

KELEFA SANNEH

III. Values

17. Bread and Butter Songs: Unoriginality in Pop

235

(10)

ANN POWERS

18. Good Pop, Bad Pop: Massiveness, Materiality, and the Top 40

245

(12)

JOSHUA CLOVER

19. The Carly Simon Principle: Sincerity and Pop Greatness

257

(9)

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

20. Groove as Niche: Earth, Wind & Fire

266

(13)

ROBERT WALSER

21. Unpacking Our Hard Drives: Discophiha in the Age of Digital Reproduction

279

(10)

JULIAN DIBRELL

22. Lost In Music: Obsessive Record Collecting

289

(19)

SIMON REYNOLDS

23. Topless at the Arco Arena: Looking for the Line between Abandon and Irresponsibility during the Dot-Com Explosion

308

(10)

TIM QUIRK

24. More Rock, Less Talk: Live Music Turns Off the Voices in Our Heads

318

(7)

CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

25. The Persistence of Hair

325

(12)

JOHN DARNIELLE

Notes

337

(28)

Contributors

365

(7)

Acknowledgments

372

(3)

Index

375

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