Best Music Writing 2010
Author(s): Ann Powers
Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sortnovelists, poets, journalists, musiciansare gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.
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Ann Powers is the chief pop critic of the Los Angeles Times. She has been writing about music for nearly three decades. She is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America, and, with the artist, Tori Amos: Piece By Piece. With Evelyn McDonnell, she co-edited the pioneering anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Rap, and Pop. Daphne Carr is the author of Pretty Hate Machine (2010). Her essays have appeared in Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs and Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music. She lives in New York City and can be found on the web at funboring.com.
General Fields
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- : The Perseus Books Group
- : Da Capo Press Inc
- : 0.34
- : 31 October 2010
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 352
- : 781.6
- : 111
- : Paperback
- : Ann Powers