Monday, October 6 at 7 p.m
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its customary range—covering everything from the Wu-tang Clan to Pete Seeger,
Louis Armstrong to ABBA—the 2008 edition emphasizes not only a diversity of
music, but a diversity of sources as this year’s essays, missives, and musings
are culled from publications ranging from blogs to the New Yorker, making BEST
MUSIC WRITING 2008 one of the most fascinating editions yet.
Nelson George, the first African-American music writer chosen to helm the annual collection, will lend his expertise to the BEST MUSIC WRITING series as Guest Editor of the 2008 edition. A long love affair with music and a “search for God in the vinyl” has influenced the assembly of this special collection, as George highlights critics who “have a knack for looking deeply at a current work, holding it up as a mirror to the present music scene and as a window into the mind of its maker.”
Nelson George joins an esteemed list of previous guest editors from a variety of disciplines including Robert Christgau, Nick Hornby, Mickey Hart, Matt Groening, Peter Guralnick, Jonathan Lethem, and Mary Gaitskill. Daphne Carr will reprise her role as Series Editor for the third year.
This event will feature the following writers/works:
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LARRY BLUMENFELD * Band on the Run in New Orleans * Salon
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GARY GIDDINS * Back to Bossa: Rosa Passos and Fifty Years of Bossa Nova. * The New Yorker
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SAM KASHNER * Fever Pitch: When Travolta Did Disco; the Making of Saturday Night Fever * Movies Rock
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JODY ROSEN * A Pirate Looks at Sixty: Jimmy Buffett’s Mid-Life Crises * Slate
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JEFF SHARLET * The People’s Singer: the Embattled Lee Hays * Oxford American
Join us as we celebrate this fantastic collection, and both the writers and editors that made it possible.
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This event is free and open to the public. |