Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the
essays in "Listen Again" pinpoint magic moments from a century of
pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines,
songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio
accidents with unforeseen consequences. "Listen Again" collects
some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience
Music Project Pop Conference, where journalists, musicians,
academics, and other culturemongers come together once each year to
stretch the boundaries of pop music culture, criticism, and
scholarship.
Building a history of pop music out of unexpected instances,
critics and musicians delve into topics from the
early-twentieth-century black performer Bert Williams's use of
blackface, to the invention of the Delta blues category by a
forgotten record collector named James McKune, to an "ER "cast
member's performance as the Germs' front man Darby Crash at a Germs
reunion show. Cuban music historian Ned Sublette zeroes in on the
signature riff of the garage-band staple "Louie, Louie." David
Thomas of the pioneering punk band Pere Ubu honors one of his
forebears: Ghoulardi, a late-night monster-movie host on
Cleveland-area TV in the 1960s. Benjamin Melendez discusses playing
in a band, the Ghetto Brothers, that Latinized the Beatles, while
leading a South Bronx gang, also called the Ghetto Brothers.
Michaelangelo Matos traces the lineage of the hip-hop sample
"Apache" to a Burt Lancaster film. Whether reflecting on the
ringing freedom of an E chord or the significance of Bill Tate, who
performed once in 1981 as Buddy Holocaust and was never heard from
again, the essays reveal why Robert Christgau, a founder of rock
criticism, has called the EMP Pop Conference "the best thing that's
ever happened to serious consideration of pop music."
"Contributors." David Brackett, Franklin Bruno, Daphne Carr,
Henry Chalfant, Jeff Chang, Drew Daniel, Robert Fink, Holly
George-Warren, Lavinia Greenlaw, Marybeth Hamilton, Jason King,
Josh Kun, W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Greil Marcus, Michaelangelo Matos,
Benjamin Melendez, Mark Anthony Neal, Ned Sublette, David Thomas,
Steve Waksman, Eric Weisbard
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