Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club
Subtitle: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780226287379
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Aesthetics; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History & Criticism - General; Philosophy / Aesthetics; Music; Music/Songbooks; 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.