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been awhile since I read it but Kingsley Amis'Girl, 20 features hilarious send-up of pretentious modern classical composer. and I like a bit of p.m.c. music myself, yet this is still funny.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the Shosktakovich stuff in Vollmann's Europe Central is superb.

― franny (frannyglass), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

I'm reading <i>People Funny Boy</i> (Scratch bio) and <i>Young, Gifted and Black</i> (about Trojan records). Both good so far.

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

DAMN NEW TAGS

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

A few others that are worth a look:

Joe Carducci -Rock And The Pop Narcotic
Lloyd Bradley - Bass Culture
Ciaran Carson - Last Night's Fun
Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins - Dance Of Days

on punk/hard rock, reggae, irish trad and DC hardcore respectively. The Ciaran Carson is probably the best of them in terms of the actual writing - he's also written a couple of novels broadly in the vein of At Swim-Two-Birds, poetry and a new transdation of [i]the Inferno.

I don't read nearly as many books about music as I used to but I'll still pick up anything by Simon Reynolds or Jon Savage. There's a new Reynolds collection coming out in May, entitled [i]Bring The Noise.

― Eoghan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

This seems as good a place as any for ... Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo on his literary diet, past and future (not just books about music).

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/poets-musicians-writing-ira-kaplan/#!

His experience with poetry and short stories is similar to mine.

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link

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