{"product_id":"shake-it-up-great-american-writing-on-rock-and-pop-from-elvis-to-jay-zisbn-9781598535310","title":"Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legends\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's \u003ci\u003eShake It Up \u003c\/i\u003einvites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince Aletti on disco and Gerald Early on Motown; Robert Christgau on Prince, Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Luc Sante on Bob Dylan, Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, Anthony DeCurtis on the Rolling Stones, Kelefa Sanneh on Jay Z. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The story this anthology tells is a ongoing one: “it’s too early,” editors Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar note, “for canon formation in a field so marvelously volatile—a volatility that mirrors, still, that of pop music itself, which remains smokestack lightning. The writing here attempts to catch some in a bottle.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlso features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NAT HENTOFF on BOB DYLAN \u003cbr\u003e AMIRI BARAKA on R\u0026amp;B \u003cbr\u003e LESTER BANGS on ELVIS PRESLEY \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT CHRISTGAU on PRINCE \u003cbr\u003e DEBRA RAE COHEN on DAVID BOWIE \u003cbr\u003e EVE BABITZ on JIM MORRISON \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT PALMER on SAM COOKE \u003cbr\u003e CHUCK KLOSTERMAN on HEAVY METAL \u003cbr\u003e JESSICA HOPPER on EMO \u003cbr\u003e JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN on AXL ROSE \u003cbr\u003e ELIJAH WALD on THE BEATLES \u003cbr\u003e GREIL MARCUS on CHRISTIAN MARCLAY\"Excellent. . . . A feast of rock writing, freewheelin', funny, and deep.” \u003cb\u003e—Bruce Handy, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A vivid cross-section of a half century’s worth of American music writing. . . . Lethem and Dettmar have made their selections both rightly and righteously.\" \u003cb\u003e—Jack Hamilton, \u003ci\u003eNewYorker.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are so many hits that this smart anthology mostly feels like a dream jukebox.\" \u003cb\u003e—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Will remind you of just about everything you love about music.” \u003cb\u003e—PopMatters.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pop writing, at its best, doesn’t know the difference between desire and theory, which is precisely the reason for its power and its persistence. Lethem and Dettmar’s expansive anthology renders this wild, polychrome tradition, and the state of play today, with gusto.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Ratliff, author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Song Ever \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJONATHAN LETHEM \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fortress of Solitude \u003c\/i\u003eand nine other novels; \u003cb\u003eKEVIN DETTMAR \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eIs Rock Dead? \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305165705445,"sku":"NP9781598535310","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598535310.jpg?v=1730759600","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/shake-it-up-great-american-writing-on-rock-and-pop-from-elvis-to-jay-zisbn-9781598535310","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}