Legendary critic Greil Marcus takes the helm for the landmark tenth edition of Da Capo’s annual compendium of the best in music writing
Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year’s most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it’s appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of
Lipstick Traces,
Mystery Train,
Like a Rolling Stone, and other groundbreaking excursions into the very fabric of music, America, and beyond.
As always, Series Editor Daphne Carr has culled an impressively wide range of essays, profiles, news articles, interviews, creative non-fiction, fiction, book reviews, long-format reviews, blog posts, and journal articles on music and music culture, from rock and hip-hop to R&B and jazz to pop, blues, and more. Writers who have been published in Best Music Writing include Alex Ross, Jonathan Lethem, Ann Powers, Dave Eggers, Susan Orlean, and more.
USAToday.com’s Pop Candy Blog, PopMatters
“I look forward to it every year!”
USA Today
“[P]ieces examine the music world in a social context, which makes for a challenging, and engaging, read.”
USAToday.com’s Pop Candy blog
“[Y]ou really should get the book, which is one of my favorite annual compilations.”
BooklistOnline
“…essential, as usual.”
Music Media Monthly, June 2010
“A can’t-put-it-down survey… [it] admirably fills in the blanks, explains, cajoles, reveres and lambasts the music culture and the artists who define contemporary popular music—today and as we’ve come to know it.”
Greil Marcus is the author of
Lipstick Traces. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Daphne Carr is a music journalist and scholar who lives in Manhattan and can be found on the Web at funboring.com.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Distributor: Perseus Books Group
Publication Date: 10-13-2009
Pages: 384
Measurements: 8.25in X 5.50in X 13.50oz
