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Gazoo:
Didn't see a thread for this kind of stuff:
A stunningly long and compelling review of a book about the Brill Building era that I didn't even know was out:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18562
RGMike:
--- Quote from: "Gazoo" ---Didn't see a thread for this kind of stuff:
A stunningly long and compelling review of a book about the Brill Building era that I didn't even know was out:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18562
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Damn! gotta put that one on my must-read list, along with Donovan's autobio.
Gazoo:
--- Quote from: "RGMike" ---
--- Quote from: "Gazoo" ---Didn't see a thread for this kind of stuff:
A stunningly long and compelling review of a book about the Brill Building era that I didn't even know was out:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18562
--- End quote ---
Damn! gotta put that one on my must-read list, along with Donovan's autobio.
--- End quote ---
BTW, Mike, have you ever given thought to putting your music musings in blog form? From what you've posted our way, I've long felt you have a book inside you.
And I'm suddenly struck with the notion that *another* good book might be this: An "oral history" biography of the radio of the '70s, from the so far underexplored perspective of the fans. I.e., us here. I feel like I could send each of you a list of 15 artists/songs/genres, say "riff on this like you were hearing a radio playlist of it," take the responses and put everything in roughly chronological order, and have a volume that any music geek would completely salivate over.
Don't mind me; I'm just thinking out loud here.
RGMike:
--- Quote from: "Gazoo" ---
--- Quote from: "RGMike" ---
--- Quote from: "Gazoo" ---Didn't see a thread for this kind of stuff:
A stunningly long and compelling review of a book about the Brill Building era that I didn't even know was out:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18562
--- End quote ---
Damn! gotta put that one on my must-read list, along with Donovan's autobio.
--- End quote ---
BTW, Mike, have you ever given thought to putting your music musings in blog form? From what you've posted our way, I've long felt you have a book inside you.
And I'm suddenly struck with the notion that *another* good book might be this: An "oral history" biography of the radio of the '70s, from the so far underexplored perspective of the fans. I.e., us here. I feel like I could send each of you a list of 15 artists/songs/genres, say "riff on this like you were hearing a radio playlist of it," take the responses and put everything in roughly chronological order, and have a volume that any music geek would completely salivate over.
Don't mind me; I'm just thinking out loud here.
--- End quote ---
I've been thinking about blogging for some time; but time is the issue, if ya know what I mean.
Gazoo:
It made my morning to find myself on this distribution list. If any of you came across any excellent writing about music this past year, I'm all ears.
--- Quote ---Hi,
I'm the series editor for Da Capo Best Music Writing 2007. Every year I undertake the large but fantastic task of finding the best music writing of a year across many styles, formats and displines, but each year I am overwhelmed by the number of publications that run music coverage. I can't possibly read them all! I am hoping to enlist your help - send work for me to read!
This year, as in every year, I am looking for brilliant essays, profiles, news articles, interviews, creative non-fiction, fiction, book reviews, long-format reviews, blog posts, journal articles and the like. I am also excited to announce that I am accepting short album reviews for a special section of the book – please, if you are an editor of a magazine that runs a reviews section, email me with your reviews editor's contact information so I can get the ball rolling on this.
I ask you to please send your own best work, the work of your publication(s), great work of your friends and colleagues, and work that you have admired in passing throughout the year. You can send me email links, hard copies of articles, whole magazines (please paperclip/post-it the pages to read), or if need be, just the name/title/publication title/date and I will search the piece out myself. Feel free to mail/email me multiple times as you find more pieces that you love. I will be accepting work through the end of January.
{redacted address because I fear the spambots}
And finally, please feel free to forward this email widely to all of your contacts in the music writing and publishing community. I look forward to a deluge of mail from all of you in the very near future.
Thanks for another great year of writing,
Daphne
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