Book Reviews

• A Change Is Gonna Come: Brian Ward's Just My Soul Responding
• A Class Act: Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
• A Darker Shade of Noir: Walter Mosley
• A New (Rock) Polarity: Simon Reynolds and Joy Press's The Sex Revolts
• A Slender Hope for Salvation: Charles A. Reich: The Greening of America
• America's Secret Fundamentalists
• Aptitude Adjustment: Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test
• Arthur Kempton: Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music
• Autobiography of a Pain in the Neck: Meredith Maran's What It's Like to Live Now
• Biztime Stories: Bruce Feiler and Ronin Ro
• Black Melting Pot: David B. Coplan, In Township Tonight!
• Bouton Baseball: Jim Bouton's Ball Four
• But Seriously, Folks: Mark Costello and David Foster Wallaces's Signifying Rappers
• Bwana-Acolyte in the Favor Bank: Banning Eyre's In Griot Time
• Christine Stansell's American Moderns
• Combat Rocker: Joe Strummer
• Confessions of an Aging Rock Critic: Jon Landau's It's Too Late to Stop Now
• Dave Hickey's Air Guitar
• Defining/Inventing/Exploiting the Folk: Benjamin Filene's Romancing the Folk
• Dialectic Cricket: C.L.R. James
• Disco Heat
• Ed Sanders: The Family
• Elvis Presley
• Enthusiasms
• Folking Around: David Hajdu's Positively 4th Street
• Forward to Greil Marcus's Stranded
• Glossing Big-Tymers: Touré
• Great Books of Fire: Jerry Lee Lewis
• Growing Up Kept Down: William Finnegan's Cold New World
• History of the Sexual Century: John Heidenry's Such Wild Ecstasy
• How J Dilla Turned the Sound of Error Into a Brand New Beat
• Hüsker Dü's Propulsive Liberation
• I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
• In Search of Sam Cooke
• In the Crucible of the Party: Charles Keil's Bright Balkan Morning
• Inside Dope: Michael Eric Dyson's Between God and Gangsta Rap
• Inside the Prosex Wars: Nadine Strossen, Joanna Frueh, Laura Kipnis
• Inventing Punk: Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's Please Kill Me
• It's Barely Rock and Roll, But I Like It: Simon Frith's Sound Effects
• Journalism and/or Criticism and/or Musicology and/or Sociology (and/or Writing)
• Journalism and/or Criticism and/or Musicology and/or Sociology (and/or Writing)
• Juju Beats: The Rise and Rise of African Music
• Just Enough Monkey Business
• Kansas City Lightning
• Lestorian Lit
• Living in a Material World: Raymond Williams' Long Revolution
• Meaning Collectors: Chris Roberts's Idle Worship
• Michael Chabon Blurs the Line Between Fact and Fiction
• Michael Eric Tyson: Between God and Gangsta Rap
• Mikal Gilmore's Night Beat
• Mind Blower: Marco Vassi
• Money Isn't Everything: Fred Goodman's The Mansion on the Hill
• Music for Goniffs: Fredric Dannen's Hit Men
• Musicology: Craig Werner's Higher Ground
• Musicology: Ken Emerson
• Musicology: Michaelangelo Matos's Sign 'O' the Times
• Nevermore: Nirvana
• Outside Rock and Roll: John F. Szwed and Dave Hickey
• P.J. O'Rourke: Age and Guilt Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
• Philosophy Practice: Livvy Lumpkin's Deep Design
• Pissed Off Voters: How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office
• Porn Yesterday: Walter Kendrick's The Secret Museum
• Radical Pluralist: Andrew Ross's No Respect
• Ramblin' Man: Coney Island Okie: Woody Guthrie
• Raptitude Tests: Hip Hop Moves to the Mainstream
• Real Ragtime: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo
• Remembering Marshall Berman
• Rhythms of the Universe
• Richard Brautigan: Sombrero Fallout
• Rock Bios
• Rock Critics
• Rock Music Is Here to Stay: Joe Carducci's Rock and the Pop Narcotic
• Rock Opera: Pete Townshend
• Roddy Doyle's The Commitments
• Salon Bookbag: The History of Pop
• Serious Music: Robert Walser's Running With the Devil
• Seven Music Books I Liked in 1996 in Roughly Descending Order
• Singing to Live: Helen Kivnick's Where Is the Way
• Slavery Days
• Speaking in Palindromes: Bruce Sterling's Zeitgeist
• Stanley Crouch, a towering critic, loved a good fight
• Sterling Characters: Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire
• Sustainable Romance: Norman Rush's Mortals
• Sustaining Pleasures
• That Bad Man, Tough Old Huddie Ledbetter: Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell's The Life and Legend of Leadbelly
• The First Lady of Song: Billie Holiday
• The History of Music -- All of It -- in 400+ Pages
• The Inarticulate in Pursuit of the Indescribable: Simon Miller's The Last Post
• The Informer: John Leonard's When the Kissing Had to Stop
• The John Lennon Letters
• The Little Counterculture That Could: Carol Brightman's Sweet Chaos
• The Old Ethiopians at Home: Ken Emerson's Doo-Dah!
• The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
• The Pop-Boho Connection: Bernard Gendron's Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club
• The Rock Days of Disco
• The Wolf I'm Beratin': David Vozar's Yo! Hungry Wolf
• Theory of the Rhythmic Class: Susan McClary's Feminine Endings
• Too Strait Are the Gates of Eden: Morris Dickstein's Gates of Eden
• Turn Around Bright Eyes
• Twentieth Century Limited: Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
• Up From Darien: Charles Keil
• What Pretentious White Men Are Good For: Robert Coover's Gerald's Party
• Why It's Still Good to Me
• Writing for the People: George Orwell's 1984
• You Could Look It Up