Love Is a Mix Tape
Subtitle: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Publisher: Crown
Published: January 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781400083022
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; Music History And Criticism +; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / General; History & Criticism - General; Biography; History and criticism; Journalists; Music critics; Popular music; United States
Description: In the 1990s, "alternative" was suddenly mainstream, and bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.--bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV--were MTV. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way. It was also the 1990s when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. He was tall. She was short. He was shy. She was a social butterfly. They had nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music brought them together and kept them together. And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss. Here, Rob, now a writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with Renée.--From publisher description.