Da Capo Best Music Writing
(2002)The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country and More
A non fiction book by Paul Bresnick and Jonathan Lethem
Announcing the third annual collection of the year's best essays and articles on music. It's "music-geek rapture."- Entertainment Weekly
It's here: the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Jonathan Lethem, best-selling novelist, music hound, and self-confessed closet rock-writer. With pieces on a dazzling array of topics from more than a hundred sources, the collection brings you remarkable essays by journalists and authors who are as serious about writing as they are about music. It's required reading for anyone who loves either art.
Past contributors have included:
David Rakoff
Mike Doughty
Lorraine Ali
Greil Marcus
Richard Meltzer
Robert Gordon
Sarah Vowell
Nick Tosches
Anthony DeCurtis
William Gay
Whitney Balliett
Lester Bangs
Rosanne Cash
Susan Orlean
Eddie Dean
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Alec Wilkinson
David Hajdu
It's here: the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Jonathan Lethem, best-selling novelist, music hound, and self-confessed closet rock-writer. With pieces on a dazzling array of topics from more than a hundred sources, the collection brings you remarkable essays by journalists and authors who are as serious about writing as they are about music. It's required reading for anyone who loves either art.
Past contributors have included:
David Rakoff
Mike Doughty
Lorraine Ali
Greil Marcus
Richard Meltzer
Robert Gordon
Sarah Vowell
Nick Tosches
Anthony DeCurtis
William Gay
Whitney Balliett
Lester Bangs
Rosanne Cash
Susan Orlean
Eddie Dean
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Alec Wilkinson
David Hajdu
Used availability for Jonathan Lethem's Da Capo Best Music Writing