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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
This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Odds and Ends 001:
- Ruth Gerson: Deceived (Wrong) ***
- Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs: No Help Coming (Transdreamer) ***
- Jonny Corndawg: Down on the Bikini Line (Nasty Memories) ***
- Amy LaVere: Stranger Me (Archer) ***
- Rod Picott: Welding Burns (Welding Rod) **
- Blake Shelton: Red River Blue (Warner Bros.) **
- Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside: Dirty Radio (Partisan) **
- Martina McBride: Eleven (Republic Nashville) *
- Deer Tick/Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams:
- Deer Tick: Divine Providence (Partisan) A-
- The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams (Egyptian/CMF/Columbia) B+
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-10-28] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads/B-52s:
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: The Best of Ian Dury and the Blockheads (Rhino '92) A
- The B-52s: With the Wild Crowd! (Eagle) A-
- Jeffrey Lewis/Kimya Dawson:
- Jeffrey Lewis: A Turn in the Dream-Songs (Rough Trade) A-
- Kimya Dawson: Thunder Thighs (Great Crap Factory) B+
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-10-21] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-10-14] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
Also new on NPR:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-10-07] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Radioclit/BLNRB:
- Radioclit Presents: The Sound of Club Secousse Vol. 1 (Crammed Discs) B+
- BLNRB: Welcome to the Madhouse (Out Here) A-
- Ry Cooder/Note of Hope:
- Ry Cooder: Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch) A-
- Note of Hope (429) A-
Also new on NPR:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-09-30] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Jens Lekman/Fruit Bats:
- Jens Lekman: An Argument With Myself (Secretly Canadian) A
- Fruit Bats: Tripper (Sub Pop) A-
- Das Racist/Ice Cube:
- Das Racist: Relax (Greedhead) A
- Ice Cube: The Essentials (Priority '08) A-
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-09-23] Rock & Roll &: Brag Like That
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
Also, new on MSN Music News:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-09-19] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-09-16] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Jay-Z:
- Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt (Roc-A-Fella/Priority '96) A-
- Jay-Z: The Black Album (Roc-A-Fella '03) A
- Gilberto Gil:
- Gilberto Gil: Gilberto Gil (Universal '98) A-
- Gilberto Gil: Expresso 2222 (Universal '93) B+
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-09-09] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Louis Armstrong/King Oliver:
- Louis Armstrong: The Complete Town Hall Concert 1947 (Fresh Sound '04) A
- King Oliver: Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings (Off the Record '06) A-
- Terakaft/Tinariwen:
- Terakaft: Aratan N Azawad (World Village) A-
- Tinariwen: Tassili (Anti-) A-
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-09-02] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-08-26] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Fountains of Wayne:
- Fountains of Wayne: Fountains of Wayne (TAG/Atlantic '96) A-
- Fountains of Wayne: Utopia Parkway (Atlantic '99) A-
- Withered Hand/Lykke Li:
- Withered Hand: Good News (Absolutely Kosher) A-
- Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic) A-
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-08-19] Rock & Roll &: Not Fade Away
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-08-17] MSN Music: Fountains of Wayne: Tender Behind the Tartness
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-08-13] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Mamani Keita:
- Mamani Keita: Gagner l'Argent Français (No Format) B+
- Mamani Keita: Yelema (No Format '06) A-
- Steve Cropper/The 5 Royales:
- Steve Cropper: Dedicated: A Salute to the 5 Royales (429) A-
- The 5 Royales: The Very Best of the 5 Royales (Collectables '04) A-
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-08-12] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- SebastiAn/Skrillex:
- SebastiAn: Total (Big Beat/Atlantic/Ed Banger) A-
- Skrillex: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Big Beat/Atlantic) B+
- Neil Young/David Bowie:
- Neil Young International Harvesters: A Treasure (Reprise) A-
- David Bowie: Station to Station (Special Edition) (EMI) A-
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-08-05] Perfect Sound Forever
Robert Christgau wrote an introduction,
Writing Personally, to three papers written by his student
at NYU, and published on Perfect Sound Forever.
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-08-02] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- The Staple Singers:
- The Staple Singers: Freedom Highway (Columbia/Legacy '91) A
- The Staple Singers: Stax Profiles (Stax '06) A-
- Lobi Traore/Sorry Bamba:
- Lobi Traore: Bwati Kono "In the Club" (Kanaga System Krush) A-
- Sorry Bamba: Volume One 1970-1979 (Thrill Jockey) A-
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-29] MSN Music: Tom Zé Live: An Elfin Triumph
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-25] This Week in Expert Witness
New posts this week in Robert Christgau's
Expert Witness blog:
- Serengeti:
- Serengeti: Noticeably Negro (Audio 8 '06) A-
- Serengeti: Family & Friends (Anticon) A-
- Jill Scott/Dave Alvin:
- Jill Scott: The Light of the Sun (Blues Babe/Warner Bros.) A-
- Dave Alvin: Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc) A-
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-22] Most Recent -- More Recent -- More Ancient
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