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These magic moments: pop, writing, and the little stuff

Eric Weisbard

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 307-310

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000668 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Cruising a road to nowhere: mechanics and mysteries of the pop moment

DEVIN MCKINNEY

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 311-321

doi:10.1017/S026114300500053X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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‘Have a little talk’: listening to the B-side of history

GAYLE WALD

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 323-337

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000541 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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The story of ORCH5, or, the classical ghost in the hip-hop machine

ROBERT FINK

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 339-356

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000553 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Elvis Costello, the empire of the E chord, and a magic moment or two

DAVID BRACKETT

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 357-367

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000565 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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White chocolate soul: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor

MARK ANTHONY NEAL

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 369-380

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000577 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Accidents, hooks and theory

CHARLES KRONENGOLD

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 381-397

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000589 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Going through the motions: popular music performance in journalism and in academic discourse

TIM QUIRK and JASON TOYNBEE

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 399-413

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000590 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Writing about music is writing first

ROBERT CHRISTGAU

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 415-421

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000607 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Middle Eight

Critical karaoke

Joshua Clover, Ange Mlinko, Greil Marcus, Ann Powers and Daphne A. Brooks

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 423-427

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000619 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Land of a thousand dances: an R&B fable

Oscar Garza

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 429-437

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000620 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Classical puts me to sleep

Brian Goedde

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 439-443

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000632 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Essay Review

SOME RECENT BOOKS ON THE MUSICAL The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. Edited by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 310 pp. ISBN 0 521 79189 8 (hardback), 0 521 79639 3 (paperback) Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions. By Mark Eden Horowitz. Lanham, MD and Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2003. x + 401 pp. ISBN 0 8108 4437 0 Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film. By Arthur Knight. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xii + 339 pp. ISBN 0 8223 2963 8

Andrew Killick

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 445-452

doi:10.1017/S0261143005000644 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Reviews

Complicated shadows: The life and music of Elvis Costello. By Graeme Thomson. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2004. 342 pp. ISBN 1841955442 (hb), 1841956651 (pb) Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell and the Torch song tradition. By Larry David Smith. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2004. 312 pp. ISBN 0275973921 (hb)

Keith Negus

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 453-457

doi:10.1017/S0261143005210656 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Russia gets the blues: Music, culture, and community in unsettled times. By Michael Urban (with Andrei Evdokimov). Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 179 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8900-8 (paperback), ISBN 080144229X (hb)

John Street

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 458-459

doi:10.1017/S0261143005220652 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Nuthin' but a ‘G’ thang: The culture and commerce of gangsta rap. By Eithne Quinn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 264 pp. ISBN 0231124082 (cloth) ISBN 0231124090 (paper)

Tom Perchard

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 459-462

doi:10.1017/S0261143005230659 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Musical identities. Edited by Raymond MacDonald, David Hargreaves and Dorothy Miell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 224 pp. ISBN 0-19-850932-4 (pb)

Vincent Egan

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 462-463

doi:10.1017/S0261143005240655 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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Music, space and place: Popular music and cultural identity. Edited by Sheila Whiteley, Andy Bennett and Stan Hawkins. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 224 pp. ISBN 0754637379 (hb)

June Maxwell

Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 03, October 2005, pp 463-465

doi:10.1017/S0261143005250651 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Oct 2005

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