Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club
Subtitle: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: April 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780226287355
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History & Criticism - General; Music / Popular; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History and criticism; Popular music
First sentence: I In October 1967 the young literary theorist Richard Poirier caused a stir in intellectual circles with a scholarly article reverentially analyzing the words and music of the Beatles.