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And It Don't Stop on Substack Robert Christgau's newsletter And It Don't Stop appears three (or four) times a month on Substack. Subscribe here. Robert Christgau's Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 
Book Reports features reviews of not only the pop-music tomes you'd predict but also literary fiction, Marxist-adjacent cultural commentary, feminist debates over pornography, and even books about the past decade's financial crisis. It follows a collection that Christgau published last year, Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017, which includes Christgau's takes on, among many other things, classic rock, Kanye West, the music of Desert Storm, Lollapalooza, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and so-called guilty pleasures--a category that Christgau rejects, since, for rock critics, as he puts it, "pleasure is where meaning begins." Together, these collections make the sneaky case that Christgau is not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, his self-awarded and perhaps slightly off-putting nickname, but one of America's sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential--not to mention one of the better stylists in that cohort. Fun is a big part of why. --David Cantwell, The New Yorker NewsThis Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-22] Rock & Roll &: Making Out Like Gangsters
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review: [posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-20] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-15] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-08] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-07-01] Hüsker Dü's Propulsive Liberation
New York Times Book Review: Hüsker Dü's Propulsive Liberation:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-06-24] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-06-24] Rock & Roll &: Monster Anthems
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-06-22] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-06-17] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-06-10] MSN Music: Tammy Faye Starlite: Channeling Nico
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-06-09] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-06-03] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-05-27] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-05-20] MSN Music: A Tribute to Kate McGarrigle
[posted by Webmaster on 2011-05-17] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-05-13] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-05-06] Rock & Roll &: Sister Oh Sister
New Rock & Roll & column at Barnes & Noble Review:
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-05-04] This Week in Expert Witness
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[posted by Webmaster on 2011-04-29] Poly Styrene, Punk Pioneer
A trifecta of pieces on former X-Ray Spex vocalist Poly Styrene, who died just as her first record in quite a while was released:
The latter two pieces were written before her death. [posted by Webmaster on 2011-04-26] Most Recent -- More Recent -- More Ancient More Information |
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