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    Title
    Best Music Writing 2011
    Authors and contributors
    Guest editor Alex Ross, Series edited by Daphne Carr
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 336
    Width: 140 mm
    Height: 210 mm
    Thickness: 25 mm
    Weight: 431 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780306819636
    ISBN 10: 0306819635
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: LCO010000
    Dewey: 780.9
    BISAC category code: MUS020000
    BIC subject category: GBCY
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T1.7
    Edition statement
    2011 ed.
    Publisher
    The Perseus Books Group
    Imprint name
    Da Capo Press Inc
    Publication date
    15 December 2011
    Publication City/Country
    Cambridge, MA/US
    Main description
    Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort?novelists, poets, journalists, musicians? are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.
    Review quote
    "Kirkus Reviews," 10/15/11 "Maintaining the series' high standard...A great incentive to fire up Spotify, or even the old stereo.""Publishers Weekly," 10/3/11 "These collected pieces offer a soulful anthem to the vibrancy of music writing today." "Booklist," starred review, 11/1/11 "This terrific collection...includes an eclectic bunch of long-form articles and very short pieces...The types of music covered are impressive: classical (Beethoven, Wagner, European avant-garde); jazz (Duke Ellington; and pop (Lady Gaga) as well as country, metal and hip-hop. The selections even transcend borders: a piece on the underground music scene in Tehran is especially insightful...A bracing collection.""Kingman Daily Miner, "10/21/11 "Well done, and highly recommended is this 5 Star book."Curled Up With a Good Book "This is music journalism at its finest.""Library Journal, "11/15/11 "Aficionados of music and illuminating critical writing will find much to savor in this collection, which exemplifies Ross's assertion that music can 'reach across the human universe with astonishing ease.' Recommended.""Philadelphia"" Inquirer," 1/15/12 "As Ross states in his introduction, he and series editor Daphne Carr looked for 'pieces that led the reader into an unfamiliar realm or marked new paths on well-trod ground--pieces that assumed no prior knowledge, only a spark of curiosity.' They definitely succeeded with this anthology...Ross' choices for" Best Music Writing 2011" make us think more about what we're putting into our ears." "Tucson Citizen, "12/12/11 "An anthology that is must reading for anyone who truly loves music. This collection of essays, profiles, interviews, news articles, and blogs from important observers in the industry is, simply put, sheer joy.""Buffalo News," 1/1/12 "[Alex Ross is] the first indentured classical critic to edit one of these annual beauties and he's responsible for this one being the most brilliant and far
    Biographical note
    Alex Ross is a music critic for the "New Yorker" and the author of the acclaimed bestseller "The Rest Is Noise." He lives in New York City.Daphne Carr is a music scholar and the author of "Pretty Hate Machine." She lives in New York City.