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Robert Christgau's Big-Hearted Theory of Pop
Book Reports features reviews of not only the pop-music
tomes you'd predict but also literary fiction, Marxist-adjacent
cultural commentary, feminist debates over pornography, and even books
about the past decade's financial crisis. It follows a collection that
Christgau published last year, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years
of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017, which includes Christgau's takes on,
among many other things, classic rock, Kanye West, the music of Desert
Storm, Lollapalooza, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and so-called guilty
pleasures--a category that Christgau rejects, since, for rock critics,
as he puts it, "pleasure is where meaning begins." Together, these
collections make the sneaky case that Christgau is not just the Dean
of American Rock Critics, his self-awarded and perhaps slightly
off-putting nickname, but one of America's
sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly
one of its most influential--not to mention one of the better stylists
in that cohort. Fun is a big part of why.
--David Cantwell, The New Yorker
News
Rolling Stone (October 18, 2007) New reviews in the October 18, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-10-12] Consumer Guide (October 2007) New Consumer
Guide for October 2007.
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-10-01] Rolling Stone (October 4, 2007) New reviews in the October 4, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-09-28] Rolling Stone (September 20, 2007) New reviews in the September 20, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-09-08] Consumer Guide (September 2007) New Consumer Guide
for September 2007.
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-09-01] Rolling Stone (September 6, 2007) New reviews in the September 6, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-08-25] Rolling Stone (August 23, 2007) New reviews in the August 23, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-08-11] Website Update The following old Robert Christgau pieces have been added:
Some of these were grouped into a new section ("Newsprint") intended
for some of Christgau's old newspaper work.
The following old Carola Dibbell pieces have been added:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-08-10] Consumer Guide (August 2007) New Consumer Guide
for August 2007.
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-08-01] Rolling Stone (August 9, 2007) New reviews in the August 9, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-07-30] Rolling Stone (July 12-26, 2007) The July 12-26, 2007 Rolling Stone is a special issue, "The Fortieth
Anniversary," which takes a look back at 1967. No review section, but
Robert Christgau and David Fricke collaborated on:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-07-03] Consumer Guide (July 2007) New Consumer Guide
for July 2007.
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-07-02] Rolling Stone (June 28, 2007) New reviews in the June 28, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-06-19] Rolling Stone (June 14, 2007) New reviews in the June 14, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-06-05] New York Times Book Review Robert Christgau reviewed a book in the June 3 New York Times Book
Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-06-03] Consumer Guide (June 2007) New Consumer
Guide for June 2007. The first three Consumer Guides on MSN were
bimonthly, but now the Consumer Guide has gone back to monthly --
"shorter, but not half as short."
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-06-02] Website Update We've fallen quite a bit behind in updating the website, and today's
update only goes part of the way to bringing it up to date. Among other
omissions, the three MSN Consumer Guides are still not in the database.
The following old pieces have been added to the website:
Thanks to Tim Dabareiner for these pieces.
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-05-22] Rolling Stone (May 31, 2007) New reviews in the May 31, 2007 Rolling Stone:
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-05-19] Blender Robert Christgau wrote "The Guide: Back Catalogue" feature on
Al Green in the May, 2007 issue of
Blender.
[posted by Webmaster on 2007-05-01] Rolling Stone (May 3-17, 2007) New reviews in the May 3-17, 2007 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling
Stone:
- Patti Smith: Twelve
- Sly and the Family Stone: A Whole New Thing, Dance to the Music, Life, Stand!, There's a Riot Goin' On, Fresh, Small Talk
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