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Stars don't stand still in the sky : music and myth

Title
Stars don't stand still in the sky : music and myth / edited by Karen Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell ; introduction by Greil Marcus.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Kelly, Karen.
  • McDonnell, Evelyn.
  • Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.)
Description
287 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subjects
Note
  • "Published in collaboration with Dia Center for the Arts."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-278).
Contents
  • A Note on the Series / Michael Govan -- Preface / Evelyn McDonnell -- Introduction: All This Useless Beauty / Greil Marcus -- Commerce. Lost in the Supermarket: Myth and Commerce in the Music Business / Anthony DeCurtis. Thinking with Music / Angela McRobbie. Concealing the Hunger / Jon Langford. Art Versus Commerce: Deconstructing a (Useful) Romantic Illusion / Deena Weinstein -- Performance and Image. Re: Creation / Evelyn McDonnell. Bela Lugosi's Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Either: Goth and the Glorification of Suffering in Rock Music / James Hannaham. MTV Killed the Music Video Star / Katherine Dieckmann. Same As It Ever Was? Rock Culture. Same As It Ever Was! Rock Theory. / Lawrence Grossberg. On Not Playing Dead / Kathleen Hanna -- The Crowd. Cinderella at the Headbanger's Ball / Chuck Eddy. The Sound of the Crowd / Jon Savage. Crowds and Freedom / Ellen Willis. Dark Carnival / Paul D. Miller -- Romance. Love Only Known / Dave Hickey.
  • I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song / Ann Powers. Freedom Songs, Love Songs / Toshi Reagon. Ecstasy Is a Science: Techno-Romanticism / Simon Reynolds. Between a Hard Rock and a Velvet Elvis: Fatal Attractions in Rock Iconography / Ralph Rugoff. Rock Against Romance: Gender, Rock 'n' Roll, and Resistance / Arlene Stein -- History and Memory. Keeping Time / Karen Kelly. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: Myth, Memory, and History / Robert Santelli. Across the Great Divide: Rock Critics, Rock Women / Barbara O'Dair. Music for Gangsters and (Other) Chameleons / Jessica Hagedorn. Analogues of Mourning, Mourning the Analog / Paul Gilroy.
ISBN
  • 0814747264 (clothbound : alk. paper)
  • 0814747272 (paperbound : alk. paper)
LCCN
98041898
OCLC
  • 39838798
  • ocm39838798
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries