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- Title
- Spin : 20 years of alternative music : original writing on rock, hip-hop, techno, and beyond / edited by Will Hermes with Sia Michel.
- Publication
- New York : Three Rivers Press, c2005.
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- Description
- 287 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- Presents an overview of two decades of alternative music through more than fifty essays, quotes, and photographs of such bands as REM, the Pixies, Weezer, and Nirvana.
- Uniform Title
- Spin (New York, N.Y.)
- Alternative Title
- 20 years of alternative music
- Twenty years of alternative music
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes discographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The R.E.M. method and other rites of passage : how indie rock learned to stop worrying and love itself in the morning / Charles Aaron -- MTV : Giving the people what they want (Jesus-is this really what they want?) / Chuck Klosterman -- Madonna : icon of mall rats, Ph. D. candidates, and the rest of us / Eric Weisbard -- Prince : funky sex god / Alan Light -- U2 : revelation and lust / Ann Powers -- Run-D.M.C. : The kings of queens / Nelson George -- The Smiths & Morrissey : beautiful misery / Dave Eggers -- Goth : suburban high schools, the cure, and the secret of happiness / Marc Spitz -- Synth-pop : Depeche Mode, the Human League, and The Soul of the Machine / Simon Reynolds -- '80s teen movies : Phoebe Cates's bikini and the nine circles of high school hell / Dave Itzhoff -- John Hughes / Elvis Mitchell -- Beastie Boys : white dudes in the house / Alan Light -- Rebels without pause : Public Enemy rewrite hip-hop as revolutionary force / Sacha Jenkins --^
- Chicago house/Detroit techno : a tale of two cities / Mike Rubin -- '80s metal : stars, stripes, and Aqua Net / Chuck Klosterman --- Hip-hop's golden age : roughnecks, radicals, and undergrads / Will Hermes -- Metallica : kill'em all / Greg Milner -- Nine Inch Nails : the triump of industrial / Neil Strauss -- The Pixies : gigantic / Dave Eggers -- West coast hedonism : The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction / Marc Spitz -- Alt-country : dust-bowling for dollars / Jon Dolan -- Gangsta, gangsta : N.W.A, Dr. Dre, and the monsters of rap / R.J. Smith -- Tupac : the reality show / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Grunge : Seattle and the heavy rock invasion / Laura Sinagra -- Nirvana : the ghost of Saint Kurt / Chris Norris -- Heroin : sister morphine & Mr. Brownstone / Marc Spitz -- Smashing Pumpkings : songs of lunchroom loners / Jim DeRogatis -- Rap-rock : from "punk rock rap" to Mook Nation / Charles Aaron -- Beck : folk music, electric boogaloo / Chris Norris --^
- Green Day : pop goes the punk rock / Doug Brod -- Ecstasy : everything starts with E / SImon Reynolds -- "Angry Women": Medusas, Riot Grrrls & dangerous nymphs / Ann Powers -- Courtney Love : the girl with the most cake / Laura Sinagra -- Britpop : champagne supernovas / Doug Brod -- Radiohead : the dark side of the moon / Will Hermes -- The notorious B.I.G. : the life and death of Big Poppa / Sia Michel -- Electronica : beats for fun and profit / Will Hermes -- Weezer : geeks like us / Chuck Klosterman -- Napster : too fucking good to last / Rob Levine -- Jam bands : smells like Phish (not to mention patchouli, B.O., beer & kind bud) / Will Hermes -- Indie hip-hop : backpacking across America / Jon Caramanica -- Emo : we feel your pain / Andy Greenwalk -- Eminem (and a cast of millions who cuss, just don't give a fuck, dress, walk, talk, and act like him) / Charles Aaron -- Björk : pagan poetry / Will Hermes -- OutKast : if the Beatles were playas / Chris Norris --^
- The White Stripes and the (so-called) return of the rock / Jon Dolan.
- ISBN
- 0307236625
- LCCN
- ^^2005012418
- OCLC
- 60245596
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library