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.
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