You might also like

More about Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 97 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Our cultural darlings make music; we make them mythic. Every musical genre begets a community of listeners, performers, and critics, and quite often those categories are blurred. From the principled punk refusal of celebrity to hip-hop's celebration of its power, the music world is self-obsessed. Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky assembles scholars, music writers, industry workers, and musicians, who offer a range of opinions and experience of the nature of fame. The collection focuses on commerce, the crowd, performance and image, history and memory, and romance. Contributors discuss black women icons, love-songs, the legacy of the blues, the image of the tortured rock star, MTV, the politics of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the joy of line-dancing, and more. The contributors are James Bernard, Anthony DeCurtis, Katherine Dieckmann, Chuck Eddy, Paul Gilroy, Daniel Glass, Lawrence Grossberg, Jessica Hagedorn, Kathleen Hanna, James Hannaham, Dave Hickey, Jon Langford, Greil Marcus, Angela McRobbie, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), Barbara O'Dair, Ann Powers, Toshi Reagon, Simon Reynolds, Robert Santelli, Jon Savage, Danyel Smith, Arlene Stein, Deena Weinstein, and Ellen Willis.

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky
• Subtitle: Music and Myth
• Author: Evelyn McDonnell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780814747278
• ISBN: 0814747272
• ID: 04931714
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 1998

Trending among others

---

---

---