Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from ...
Lethem, Jonathan / Dettmar, Kevin
THE ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST OF GREAT WRITING ABOUT THE MUSIC THAT ROCKED AMERICA Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding, Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin, E...