Review: Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music , by Eric Weisbard
2021; Wiley; Volume: 33; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.223
ISSN1533-1598
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoBook Review| December 01 2021 Review: Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music, by Eric Weisbard Eric Weisbard. Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 552 pp. Jack Hamilton Jack Hamilton University of Virginia Email: jch6dx@virginia.edu Jack Hamilton is associate professor of American studies and media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2016). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2021) 33 (4): 223–225. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.223 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jack Hamilton; Review: Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music, by Eric Weisbard. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 December 2021; 33 (4): 223–225. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.223 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search Writing about popular music has not always been the most esteemed vocation. It’s been famously likened to “dancing about architecture,” a bon mot that’s been attributed to everyone from art-rocker Laurie Anderson to comedian Martin Mull. Frank Zappa once described music journalism as “people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”1 And David Lee Roth, the erstwhile lead singer of Van Halen, once remarked that the reason critics liked the bookish singer-songwriter Elvis Costello’s music so much is because he looked like them. Chronicling pop has historically been something of a thankless chore, even as it’s also been a pretty fun one. At least two of the above quips find their way into Eric Weisbard’s remarkable new work, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. (I didn’t see the Zappa quote, but it’s possible I missed it.) Songbooks is essentially an annotated bibliography... You do not currently have access to this content.
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