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Krasilovsky, M. William; Schemel, Sidney

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Vernacular Voices and The Books That Contained Them1

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“…Aware that a commercial sound had transformed them, they were collected in the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (Miller 1980) and epitomized by Greil Marcus's Mystery Train (2021). Yet there were Joel Whitburn (1973) chart books and 10 editions of This Business of Music (Krasilovsky and Schemel 2007), a Clive Davis insider memoir (1975), a Lilian Roxon Rock Encyclopedia (1969): road maps to pop diversity. Great genre studies proliferated: Bill Malone on country (2018), Charlie Gillett on rock and roll (1984), Anthony Heilbut on gospel (1971).…”

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American music writing: an unruly history

Weisbard

2021

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Popular music writing has made for strange colleagues and quickly lost legacies. I want to sketch some of them and suggest how they continue to influence the US version of popular music studies, arguably more so in our moment than in the previous period that codified an academic approach. I'll be anecdotal, alive to particulars of language, affiliation, method and form rather than attempting a quantification. Ranging from William Billings in 1770 to Daphne Brooks in 2021, I'll explore how such key framings as vernacular, sentimental and literary have shaped the nature of books on song. My hope is that, in synthesizing the larger history, I can suggest why so often this work could be characterized as, to use one of Robert Palmer's favourite words, unruly.

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American music writing: an unruly history

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2021

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