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- The Poverty of Sociological Reductionism in Black Cultural Studies
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Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation (American Crossroads)
Herman S. Gray
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Herman Gray takes a sweeping look at black popular culture over the past decade to explore culture's role in the push for black political power and social recognition. In a series of linked essays, he finds that black artists, scholars, musicians, and others have been instrumental in reconfiguring social and cultural life in the United States and he provocatively asks how black culture can now move beyond a preoccupation with inclusion and representation.
Gray considers how Wynton Marsalis and his creation of a jazz canon at Lincoln Center acted to establish cultural visibility and legitimacy for jazz. Other essays address such topics as the work of the controversial artist Kara Walker; the relentless struggles for representation on network television when those networks are no longer the primary site of black or any other identity; and how black musicians such as Steve Coleman and George Lewis are using new technology to shape and extend black musical traditions and cultural identities.
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The Poverty of Sociological Reductionism in Black Cultural Studies.......2006-07-20
Gray, a sociologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, builds on his previous scholarship on the circulation of race in network television and jazz in this study of contemporary black cultural politics. The book starts on a promising foot, offering a paradigm of cultural production that examines how current "black self-representation and collective self-fashioning in music, visual arts, broadcast television, and new information technologies...move beyond cultural politics preoccupied solely with inclusion, representation, and identity" (3). According to Gray, *Cultural Moves* is interested in the interplay between media, technology, consumerism, and institutionality as they bear on current strategies of black cultural representation.
Unfortunately, the rest of the book fails to deliver on this intriguing premise. Gray is the type of sociologist who spends so much time setting up his structuralist account of social action that he never gets around to actually analyzing the things -- artistic practices, musical and visual texts -- that constitute cultural production as such. On the potentially illustrative case of Wynton Marsalis' directorship of the jazz program at the Lincoln Center, for example, Gray is paralyzed by utterly meaningless abstractions -- to wit, "jazz is characterized by a complex set of social values, a sophisticated tradition of recognizable texts and practitioners, and a systemic means of reproduction" (37). Wow. I can almost hear Marsalis howling in mock disgust at Gray's sociological reductionism, for evacuated from this discussion is *any* concept of the properly aesthetic irruptions that Marsalis' jazz project brings to the U.S. musical and concertgoing establishment. Instead, we leave this example with merely a vague intimation of Marsalis' "cultural difference."
In a similar vein, chapters on the circulation of blacks in postnetwork TV culture (pp. 77-113) and in cyberspace (pp. 133-47) cite NO examples of actual texts, television shows, websites, etc. to support Gray's theories, save a smattering of references to Fox's *In Living Color*. Rather than engage original interpretive analysis of the multitude of examples available to him, Gray is content to wax academic on the *idea* of black cultural production with trite, vacuous pieties such as, "To the extent that television ever did produce effective national identifications by managing racial difference through exclusion and eventually incorporation, it did so primarily through representation and consumption" (105). This is a truly unfortunate sentence, enamored as it is of its seeming intelligence when all it says is the painfully obvious -- that television's "racial" meaning is a function of representation and consumption.
In short, this book is a reductive sociological account of complex cultural phenomena -- a mode of scholarship that I've noted is all-too-common in the field of black cultural studies in particular. As someone who is committed to the serious, in-depth study of black cultural politics, I'm dismayed by scholars like Gray who cannot understand cultural practices as they are taken up by living, breathing people rather than disembodied, structuralist theories. (And not especially smart structuralist theories at that.)
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- some Blakean breakthrough into the heavens of poetry...
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Pop Songs
- A really good magazine article that went undited.
- Where's That Zero Star Option When You Need It?
- What Did You Say this Book is About?
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
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Greil Marcus's popular appreciation of his, and Bob Dylan's, favorite song--a book that Rolling Stone called "essential insight into the living history of rock & roll."
Greil Marcus has written the definitive biography of the greatest pop single ever made. Recorded in Columbia's Studio A in New York on 16 June 1965, "Like A Rolling Stone" was instantly of its time-and so strong it has escaped time altogether. The musicians gathered in the studio never managed a second successful recording: they caught it once and only once. Then it was gone, arguably never to be bettered in Bob Dylan's countless live performances of the song.
Dylan's career as a folk singer--and the career imposed upon him, his unwanted role as "voice of a generation"--had hit a wall. Marcus recreates the brilliantly competitive pop world of 1965, and the energy, the anger, the thrill and the horror that Bob Dylan turned into a revolutionary six-minute single. Forty years later it remains the signal accomplishment of modern music. It drew to itself disparate traditions of American music and speech; it redrew the map of the country itself; it left behind a world that was not the same. The whole adventure is here.
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some Blakean breakthrough into the heavens of poetry..........2007-07-07
This reader thought he knew this era-shattering Dylan song and its contexts; but this book kept enriching it start to finish, and showed as well how it nearly did not happen, could have easily been abandoned in the drafts of the studio or the maze of putting Bloomfield and Kooper in on it. I was a CT kid in the shadows of Forest Hill concert, and in truth I was applauding that electric guitar like it was some Blakean breakthrough into the heavens of poetry, same thing when I heard the Byrds sing Turn Turn Turn or Tambourine Man. Re Dylan, Marcus keeps raising spectral contexts out of the airwaves, shows how the song breaks into the `great time' and afterlife of music created by Sam Cooke and Robert Johnson. This books shows how Dylan was using the top 40 as an access into that depth of folk-pop poetry coming out of the future, making a future America happen in the present, endure as a legacy and obligation. I can see how a poet such as Dylan would be grateful for such a reading, breaking his poetry into the invisible republic of the spirit.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Pop Songs.......2007-04-21
Marcus, especially in this book, reminds me of James Agee. Not Agee the reactionary film critic, but the ecstatic Agee of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - the way he could look deeply and lovingly at a sharecropper's cabin and find every splinter and stain luminous and profoundly human and dignified. Check out Agee's riff about listening to Beethoven with your head crammed into the speaker and cranking it up until it hurts. When Marcus digs into his obsessions it can be like that, revealing details of perception and levels of feeling that you can't imagine having missed.
On the downside, Marcus also shares Agee's tendency to lapse into rambling and grandiosity, and the words can pile up and stumble over themselves, leaving you wondering what the hell he's talking about. He has so many ideas and passions, and wants to draw connections between his subject and so many other things. When it works it can be fascinating, but sometimes it's a bit of a stretch, and you wish he would at least not try to cram them all into one sentence/paragraph/page. In this book especially, I often found myself wishing for a stronger editorial hand to rein him in and clear up some of the log jams. It raises an interesting question about how far you can push journalism in the direction of literature and have it still be effective. After all, Agee's great tome began as a magazine article that got out of hand...
But I like to watch Marcus' mind at work, even when he goes off the deep end. He's one of my favorite writers to argue with; I may occasionally think he's full of it, but I admire the effort. When so much music writing is either lame fanboy drivel, shallow blurbage, or arid academic nonsense, it's a pleasure to read someone both passionate and scholarly who is prepared to dig so deeply, to stake a claim that this music (whatever it is - in this case Dylan's) really matters.
A really good magazine article that went undited........2007-04-03
There are many interesting facts regarding the cultural and musical importance of this song and many good anectodes from the studio. However, the interesting parts could have made a decent magazine article (and have already) while the rest is quite rambling and bloated. Still, a decent enough book and if you don't know much about the song or its importance, not a waste of time.
Where's That Zero Star Option When You Need It?.......2006-09-06
I happen to believe that Bob Dylan is the most important American artistic voice of the last half century at least. I also happen to believe that Like a Rolling Stone is the best rock song ever. If one does not believe those two things, Greil Marcus' hyperbolic huffing of a book is not going to convince you. Only Dylan's work will do that. If, on the other hand, you do already agree, Marcus' hip pomposity is pointless. Is the man capable of writing a sentence without layered metaphors and with fewer than twenty-five words? By the evidence in Like a Rolling Stone, no. If you want to know what Dylan is and means, read his own Chronicles, not this.
What Did You Say this Book is About?.......2006-04-07
This is about Bob Dylan, based on the title of his most famous song, or maybe about his music and others who also sang his songs. Or maybe it is about the culture and trends of that time, or about the uncertainty of American cultural identity. I don't know. I was left puzzled and a bit frustrated.
The author writes very impressionistically, and it is sometimes hard to tell what he is talking about. He includes some interesting details about particular songs and their performances, but this is not a chronological epic. The author jumps around and uses creative associations and metaphors.
Thus it is difficult to relate one song to another, one event to another, to get a picture of what was really happening in Dylan's life and music or in the culture around him, to which his music supposedly speaks. I kept feeling like something was about to happen, to be revealed, to unfold dynamically out of the somewhat surreal scatter of events, people, places and songs. But it never happened.
No culminating event occurred; no point was ever made. No summarizing reflection ever arrived to clarify the muddle and tie the pieces together.
Marcus seems to present some keen insights about Dylan (real name Robert Zimmerman) and the times, and many other music groups and songs, events and places, trends and impressions, but most of the time it is not clear just what the insight is.
Maybe that is the insight, as a commentary on the times and the spirit Dylan is thought to represent. Is this an ode to one song; a tribute to the writer-singer? A personal flight of skittish memory clips?
Somewhat frustrating reading on what would have been a good topic.
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- *CELTIC CROSSROADS* is a lucid critical biography.
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Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison (Sanctuary Music Library)
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Mysterious, profound, enigmatic, spellbinding in his performance, whether rock, soul, jazz, or folk. Hinton expertly addresses the music of this contemporary musical genius.
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Clip Job.......2004-08-03
Two-and-a-half, really. One keeps reading because among the endless quotes from contemporaneous rock critics, music snob name-dropping, blow-by-blow descriptions of set lists and references to the subject of the author's other big work (Joni Mitchell), there are some interesting facts. The book could have used a more thorough edit to weed out some of the more self-indulgent bits.
Vizcity on Van.......2000-08-17
This book is a meaty little tome, 392 pages of entertaining text with a small, b/w picture section in the middle. I got my copy two days ago and have found it hard to put down since. Despite his PhD in poetry and myth, Hinton doesn't go for academic jargon at all. The writing is brisk and down-to-earth. Hinton is confident not only in his literary knowledge but also in his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music, which enables him to put Van in interesting contexts at times.
Still, I've noticed a few factual errors and odd omissions (he doesn't know that the Bottom Line '78 MC is Peter Wolf), and the writing sometimes seems rushed, especially the last few chapters. Also, there are lapses in tone (Hinton will often jump out of his authorial character to address the reader with a chummy question) and paragraphs that jump from one topic to another disconcertingly.
Hinton seems to have about five main goals.
To argue that Van Morrison is indeed a very fine poet, albeit one who's poetry relies on its musical context. Hinton takes issue with the Johnny Rogan and John Collis books on this subject. To assert that VM's artistry is at its best during live performances. To demonstrate this, Hinton goes into great detail comparing the oft-booted Fillmore West 1970 show to MOONDANCE, arguing that the live versions of the MOONDANCE songs are more vital and interesting than the studio versions. (I can't agree in this particular instance - and *I* personally tend to feel that while the argument might be true with Van's '90s work, the studio was where Van tended to be most comfortable and vital in the '70s and early '80s.) To make a strong case for albums that critics often denigrate, such as TUPELO HONEY and COMMON ONE, although he isn't afraid to come down hard on some titles (HIS BAND AND THE STREET CHOIR, A PERIOD OF TRANSITION). And he comes right out and says that one of his primary motivations was to champion VEEDON FLEECE, an album that he feels deserves a stronger status than that of "cult favorite." To write a book that functions as a clearing-house of VM information. In this, he succeeds fairly well. There is very little Van knowledge, lore, and minutiae that is absent. Hinton has done an amazing amount of secondary research and incorporated it generously into the book. He has even immersed himself in back issues of THE VAN MORRISON NEWSLETTER and WAVELENGTH as well as many underground tapes and boots (from the archives of Geoff Wall), although I wish he'd taken more time to let all the info. digest before spewing it out in the book, sometimes rather cluelessly. Overall, Hinton's use of secondary research is one of the book's strengths. Unfortunately, there seems to be little *primary* research; most of his interview material seems gathered from the work of his predecessors: Ritchie Yorke, Johnny Rogan, Steve Turner, and even John Collis. To avoid the "wounded-journalist" bitterness that overtook the Rogan and Collis books. Hinton doesn't stint on reporting many instances of VM's rude, SOB behavior, and he doesn't try to defend it, but he also avoids moralizing about it or allowing it to (dis)color his view of the music. I'm sure Hinton has several other agendas in writing this book, but these are the five that stand out for me. I do recommend the book. Although the other books do more face-to- face research, and although the Turner book is the most cogent and revelatory regarding Van's spiritual concerns, this big clearing-house project may be the most purely entertaining volume yet written on the subject.
Still no definitive book on Van the Man.......1998-08-12
This book is a disappointment.The bibliography and discography are good, and there is much information and opinion about the artist and his work.However there is little attempt to come to grips with the person or his art.There are many digressions which refer to other performers not relevant to Van Morrison, but they are mentioned simply because their music was around at the same time.Too much space is given to describing live performances, which means little to those of us who were not there.Discussion of Van's songs is superficial.So much remains untouched:his musical and non musical influences, his spiritual searchings, his Irish heritage.I am still waiting for the definitive book on Van Morrison, both the man and the music.
*CELTIC CROSSROADS* is a lucid critical biography........1998-01-28
Brian Hinton's *CELTIC CROSSROADS* is one of the most lucid and comprehensive critical biographies available on the enigmatic Irish singer and songwriter. The title of Hinton's book is an allusion to both the ethnic roots f the Irish singer and the singer's love of American Blues music.
Hinton's encylopedic knowledge of rock 'n roll music provides a well-researched query into Morrison's every expanding discography. Especially noteworthy is Hinton's critical commentary on almost every individual song on each Morrison album. The main strength of Hinton's biography is the author's ability to put Morrison's creative output into a cultural context.
Indeed, if the book has a failing, it is Hinton's proclivity to get lost in a tangential dicussion which only illuminates his knowledge of pop music, not the music of Morrison. In one chapter, he connects Morrison's music to bands as divergent in style as Yes, the Sex Pistols, and,(as humorist Dave Barry would say)I'm not making this up, the Spice Girls!
The new Van Morrison fan may thus be better served by Steve Turner's lavishly illustrated *VAN MORRISON: TOO LATE TO STOP NOW*. However, the extensive bibliography, discography, and filmography make Hinton's book a necessity for any Morrison fan who wishes to delve deeper into the music of this iconoclastic artist.
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- Great imagination to bring new life to a familiar story
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Jesusgate: A Novel (Crossroad Fiction Program)
Grayson W Brown
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Great imagination to bring new life to a familiar story.......1998-11-10
Jesusgate warps time to bring the reader to the investigation of the death of Jesus as it would be done today (good and bad goverment officials plus journalists trying to beat each other to the scoop). Grayson Warren Brown uses his imagination to give a new slant on the Roman politics and the Jewish leaders at the time of Jesus. My only disappointment in the book is that the author did not give us a sense of what a Western world would be like if it had experienced all of the history up to the 20th century, but without having yet experienced Jesus.
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Canadian Culture at the Crossroads: Film, Television, and the Media in the 1960s
The Wendy Michener Symposium
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In Canada, as elsewhere, the sixties were exciting and turbulent years. Socially, politically, and culturally, the decade was a watershed, heralding an unprecedented blossoming of the arts in Canada, coupled with the rise of cultural nationalism in Quebec, the onslaught of the “media revolution,” and the advent of the feminist movement. These issues are the focus of the first annual Wendy Michener Symposium: four provocative lectures and lively debate, moderated by Mavor Moore. In this collection of talks, Douglas Leiterman, Robert Daudelin, Peter Morris, and keynote speaker June Callwood offer a fresh look, rich in wit, hindsight, and personal experience, at topics that remain as relevant today as they were in the 1960s.
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- enjoyable reading about the guitarist/singer
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Crossroads
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Okay.......2007-01-10
This book is okay for a real Eric Clapton fan. There are not a lot of pictures, so if you want a more visual book, you may want to select another.
enjoyable reading about the guitarist/singer.......2007-01-03
I always enjoy reading books on amazing musicians/people and this one held my interest. I am not a book critic who analyzes details of every page. I will simply say I liked the book. I save my analysis for the music. Eric's music has always been fine for me. Historical anecdotes and biographical information in the book pointing out Eric's influences and life events are well written and readable.
Insightful.......2006-07-06
A fascinating journey into the life of Eric Clapton. As someone who has been an avid Clapton fan from the beginning, it was quite interesting to read about his growth and evolution as a musician over the years and with his different groups. I was fascinated to discover that he did not think he was lead guitar material and that he lacked confidence regarding his vocal abilities. This is a book which will stimulate discussion among friends and have you running to your music collection to listen to old songs yet once again, while eagerly awaiting a new Clapton release.
Very Comprehensive.......2001-09-09
This biography is indeed very informative. The details on Eric's life are very complete. One can see how Eric's small stature and limited coordination stunted his confidence at the beginning of his music career. In the Yardbirds, Cream, and Blind Faith, Eric was content just to be a part of the band. I especially enjoyed Delaney Bramlett's influence on Eric's vocal development. And of course the Layla stories are always a joy to read. The feelings behind many of Eric's signature songs are a joy to read over and over again.
The only slight drawback in this book is the fact that the author discounts the There's One In Every Crowd CD. Truthfully, I find it an underatted gem. Otherwise, Michael Schumacher does an excellent job.
GREAT. NEUTRAL STORY TELLING OF ERIC'S LIFE.......2001-08-16
THis book is very good. Schumache portrays Clapton as a musician and man, nothing going into the cheap way of focusing the book around gossips. Even the subject of Conor's death is treated decently. Also, he gives a good portrait of Eric's band mates along time, all his influences, a brief analysis of each album recorded, etc. It's a shame that Clapton didn't give any personal interviews for the book, that I think is best than Ray Coleman's offical biography.
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The Crossroads Story: The Official Guide to Crossroads Past and Present Including the All-New Crossroads from ITV
Geoff Tibballs
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After more than a decade the doors have reopened at Crossroads. In this guide, the author tells fans everything they ever wanted to know about the soap, new and old. As well as profiling the new arrivals and exploring how and why the show was revived after so long, the book includes reviews of the show's most famous storylines including Diane's death, the motel fire, Meg Richardson's departure, the test-tube baby, and the world's first eleven-month pregnancy.
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- If you liked the movie....
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Crossroads: Britney Spears: Movie Tie-in Jr Novelization (Crossroads Film Tie in)
Jenny Markas
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By turns poignant and playful, CROSSROADS is about three childhood friends, grown apart. One is a brainiac [Britney]; one a status-seeker; one a burnout. During an unplanned cross country journey, they rediscover the bonds of friendship. Scholastic’s CROSSROADS novelization features souvenir photos from the film.
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If you liked the movie...........2004-02-23
If you liked Crossroads the movie, you will love the book! The book is almost identical to the movie, but it goes deeper into the characters and story line which is nice. I found this book very interesting and could not put it down! For a fan of the movie i loved this book because it really develops the characters and plot well.
Crossroads.......2003-01-15
Crossroads is a great book and I would recommend this book to others. The author of the book is Jenny Markas. In the book Lucy, Mimi, Kit, and Ben went on a road trip to Los Angeles for a dance competition. I will read this book one hundred more times. That is how much I liked the book. I liked it because it was full of adventure.
I think the book started in an excited way because the first sentence of the first chapter besides the prologue said "I love to sing." I thought it would be exciting because I love to sing too. I don't think it contains action or suspense besides the part when they argue. I think the main character shows strength because before she leaves she doesn't tell her dad where she was going or when she will be back. I do think the book ends in a surprising way because Lucy's dad lets her stay and do the dance competition.
I think the author is trying to say that you shouldn't take off without telling anyone. I knew that when Lucy's dad woke up in the morning and found out that she wasn't there and he got worried that something happened to her. So do you think you want to read it now?
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Television At the Crossroads
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Television had, until recently, a social and cultural purpose. In Britain, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, were committed to develop and maintain these purposes. With the enlargement of the range of choices for viewers by digital television and the provision of access to cable and satellite TV and the Internet, the role of the terrestrial television channels is being diluted. The authors examine these effects and consider what can be done to maintain the standards and quality of television at a time of unlimited competition.
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Television at the Crossroads
Alessandro Mendini ,
Andrea Branzi , and
Stefano Marzano
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- Dear John
- Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries)
- DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES COOKBOOK, THE: JUICY DISHES AND SAUCY BITS
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
- Edie: Girl on Fire
- Essential Spider-Woman, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials)
- Everyday Use: Rhetoric at Work in Reading And Writing
- Exceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education (10th Edition)
- Fahrenheit 451
- Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
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