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The Best Books on Music of the Last Six Months: Winter Edition
As the winter months keep us cooped up indoors avoiding the cold night air, it is now that we forgo exercise (in a perhaps logical need to attain a little extra girth for warmth) and many of those other extracurricular activities we generally like to partake of when it’s actually nice and light outside. Therefore, it’s the perfect time to slow down the ridiculous pace of modern life to hunker down under a blanket, maybe even next to a fireplace, and read a few books. Below are reviews of some of the best books to come in second half of 2008. Enjoy!
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music
by Amanda Petrusich
(Faber & Faber)
As an “Americana” junkie, I’d been looking forward to reading Amanda Petrusich’s second book, It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music. Though it’s quite an ambitious subtitle, Petrusich’s music travelogue fulfills its promise for the most part.
Inspired by the resurgent popularity of roots music and its vaguely named offshoot, alt-country, Petrusich journeys through the back roads and byways of America to not only trace the evolution of this genre but also to find its characters and authentic essence, if it exists. She effectively combines two of Americans’ favorite passions, driving and listening to music, in pursuit of this pilgrimage and in discovering the ways that place influences sound.
Music Books of the Last Six Months: Summer Edition
by: The C! Team
Well, it’s that time of year again where we all collectively attempt to slow down the pace of our roundabout lives, and for good reason. Shit, we all need to partake in some summertime activity, like some going to the beach or pool, or some eating of some hot dogs and drinking of some beers at a baseball game, or, you know, in some being especially lazy. Let the summer breeze blow through the jasmine of your mind, as it were. Record releases come to a proverbial halt, so we’re following their lead, however inanimate they are. What we’re trying to say is that we aren’t publishing for the next week, due to a twice-a-year necessity to hit the reset button and come back refreshed and ready for more rollickin’ rock journalism. The good news is that we’re keeping up the tradition of our bi-annual book review! This summertime edition features music-related books that have come out in the last six months. You should pick up a few and add them to your summer reading list, and really, really focus on taking things down a notch. Enjoy!
Photographs and text by Lauren Dukoff
(Chronicle Books)
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by: The C! Team
published: July 1, 2009
in column: Book Reviews
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