Dancing in Your Head: Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Beyond [Paperback]

Gene Santoro (Author)

List Price:	CDN$ 38.50
Price:	CDN$ 29.21 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details
You Save:	CDN$ 9.29 (24%)
	o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

Usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. Gift-wrap available.

Formats	Amazon Price		New from	Used from
Hardcover	--		--	--
Paperback	CDN $29.21		--	--

Product Details

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; New edition edition (Oct 1 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195101235
ISBN-13: 978-0195101232
Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 1.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 340 g

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

See Complete Table of Contents

Product Description

From Publishers Weekly

Santoro, music columnist for the Nation , is an avid generalist who writes with emotion, enthusiasm and distinct likes and dislikes. Here, he offers 65 articles and record and book reviews written between 1986 and 1992 for the Nation , the Village Voice , Downbeat and other publications. He opens with an appreciation of bluesman Robert Johnson's creative use of the constraints imposed by 78rpm recording, and he closes with raves for saxophonist John Zorn's "sonic assault" on traditional musical boundaries and for Steve Coleman, whose musical evolution he traces. Santoro also covers gospel, James Brown, country (which, he writes, is based on "commercially generated nostalgia"), Jeff Beck, Gunther Schuller, the Grateful Dead, Les Paul, Charlie Mingus, Henry Threadgill and many others. His longer pieces, like those on Miles Davis and the Neville Brothers, are generally more satisfying. Santoro is a fast-paced reporter and his shorter pieces don't always reach full stride.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Santoro is conversant with many diverse areas of contemporary music. Remarkably, he never spreads himself too thin. His book includes cogent reviews of a potpourri of performers; free jazz explorers Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra, country music star k.d. lang, rap group Public Enemy, and rocker Neil Young are all insightfully profiled. Santoro's animosity toward many major record labels (he derides them as "those corporate custodians of our cultural history") and his consistent championing of avant-garde and Afrocentric artists certainly place him among the ranks of left-leaning reviewers, yet he never lacks informed reasons for the strong charges and exultations he indulges in his judgments. Politics do not stand in Santoro's way as he breaks ranks with other polemical pop critics by generously defending the nostalgia-driven marketing of Woodstock-era bands ("This usually disposable music can and does find lasting meaning in people's lives. If it didn't, we'd need a radically new definition of culture"). What's more, Santoro's recommendations make Dancing In Your Head a worthy guide for libraries expanding their sound recording collections. Aaron Cohen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

See all Product Description

Inside This Book (Learn More)

Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index