{"product_id":"present-tense-9780822312659","title":"Present Tense","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ever since people started writing about rock, other people have made fun of them. Anthony DeCurtis's anthology, with its clutch of academics, rock writers and musicians, will strike cynics as inherently pretentious. They will be wrong: This is a smart, witty, ingeniously balanced assortment of rock commentary, with a healthy number of pieces that seem prescient and, even, moving.\"—John Rockwell, European Cultural Correspondent, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection brings together two of the cultural right's favorite targets—mass culture and high theory—and demonstrates brilliantly how mutually illuminating they can be as a way of understanding the American scene.\"—Stanley Fish, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection is a useful and provocative addition to rock literature. Its collage of forms—scholarship, journalism, interviews, and fiction—allows access to a variety of readers, and provides a diverse forum for addressing the current consciousness about rock.\"—Andrew Ross, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\"This shit rocks! To wit: Exhibiting a wide range of critical music writing, this collection speaks volumes about how music, and our varied perceptions of it, are intrinsically woven into the social and ideological web of end-of-the-century thought.\"—Michael Stipe, R.E.M.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e The Eighties \/ Anthony DeCurtis 1\u003cbr\u003e The Church of the Sonic Guitar \/ Robert Palmer 13\u003cbr\u003e The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s \/ Trent Hill 39\u003cbr\u003e A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism \/ Greil Marcus 73\u003cbr\u003e Why Don't We Do It in the Classroom? \/ Glenn Gass 93\u003cbr\u003e Playing for England \/ Paul Smith 101\u003cbr\u003e Rock \u0026amp; Roll as a Cultural Practice \/ David R. Shumway 117\u003cbr\u003e Tracking \/ Robert B. Ray 135\u003cbr\u003e Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson's Crisis of Meaning \/ Mark Dery 149\u003cbr\u003e Concerning the Progress of Rock \u0026amp; Roll \/ Michael Jarrett 167\u003cbr\u003e Los Angeles, 1999 \/ Paul Evans 183\u003cbr\u003e Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary \/ Martha Nell Smith 197\u003cbr\u003e About a Salary or Reality?- Rap's Recurrent Conflict \/ Alan Light 219\u003cbr\u003e Voguing at the Carnival: Desire and Pleasure on MTV \/ Dan Rubey 235\u003cbr\u003e Living by Night in the Land of Opportunity: Observations on Life in a Rock \u0026amp; Roll Band \/ Jeff Calder 271\u003cbr\u003e Index 303\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors 315","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406012784983,"sku":"9780822312659","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822312659.jpg?v=1730494238","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/present-tense-9780822312659","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}