Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle AwardBilly Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standa
Tenth Anniversary EditionThe story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound
A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music criticDavid Hajdu begins Pop, his personal history of recorded pop music, in an unexpected p
A poignant and hilarious oral history of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon.Adrianne Geffel was a genius. Praised as the “Geyser of Grand Street” and the “Queen of Bleak Chic,” she was a one-of-a-kind
Pop Music: Our Most Influential Laboratory for Social and Aesthetic Experimentation—Changing the World Three Minutes at a TimeNamed a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and the BBC as well as a Best Book of the
In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s,the popular culture of today was invented in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. But no sooner had comics emerged
"Heroes and Villains is the first collection of essays by David Hajdu, the award-winning author of The Ten-Cent Plague, Positively 4th Street, and Lush Life. Eclectic and controversial, Hajdu's essays
The sounds, styles, and lives of outstanding singers from the 1920s to the present, are "written about with loving expertise by two writers who can make singers and their songs live on paper," says Cl
A vivid study of the lost world of comic books examines the influence of this pulpy, lavishly illustrated medium on the evolution of American popular culture in the wake of World War II and before the
This is the candid, mesmerizing, and often intimate account of how four young peopleBob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Faria, and Richard Fariagave rise to a modern-day bohemia and created the enduring s
