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It's just the normal noises : Marcus, Guralnick, No depression, and the mystery of Americana music / Timothy Gray.

Title
It's just the normal noises : Marcus, Guralnick, No depression, and the mystery of Americana music / Timothy Gray.
Author
Gray, Timothy, 1964-
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]

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Description
227 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. In It's Just the Normal Noises, Timothy Gray examines a wide array of writing about roots music from the 1960s to the present. In addition to chapters on the genre-defining work of Guralnick and Marcus, he explores the influential writings of Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, the editors of No Depression magazine, and the writers who contributed to its pages, Bill Friskicks-Warren, Ed Ward, David Cantwell, and Allison Stewart among them. A host of memoirists and novelists, from Patti Smith and Ann Powers to Eleanor Henderson and Dana Spiotta, shed light on the social effects and personal attachments of the music's many manifestations, from punk to alt country to hardcore. This book is for everyone who's heard in roots rock the sound of an individual and a nation singing themselves into being."--Back cover.
Series Statement
The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • New American canon
Subject
  • Marcus, Greil > Criticism and interpretation
  • Guralnick, Peter > Criticism and interpretation
  • No depression
  • Musical criticism > United States
  • Popular music > United States > History and criticism
  • Americana (Music) > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Hip Americana : the cultural criticism of Greil Marcus -- "Life's little ups and downs" : Peter Guralnuick and roots biography -- "Searching for a truer sound" : No depression magazine -- "Learning to live on your own" : growing up in DIY America.
ISBN
  • 9781609384883
  • 1609384881
  • 9781609384890 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2016042839
OCLC
  • 960717956
  • SCSB-10000163
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library