Let's talk about love
Subtitle: why other people have such bad taste
By: Carl Wilson
Edition: New and expanded edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781441166777
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Popular music; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Analysis, appreciation; Popular culture; History and criticism
Notes: "Part I : Let's talk about love: a journey to the end of taste was originally published by Continuum, 2007 [series 33 1/3, vol. 52]"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Part one, Let's talk about love: a journey to the end of taste / Carl Wilson. Let's talk about hate; title: Let's talk about pop (and its critics); title: Let's talk in French; title: Let's talk about world conquest; title: Let's talk about schmaltz; title: Let's sing really loud; title: Let's talk about taste; title: Let's talk about who's got bad taste; title: Let's talk with some fans; title: Let's do a punk version of "My heart will go on" (or, Let's talk about our feelings); title: Let's talk about Let's talk about love; title: Let's talk about love; title: Part two, Essays: What we talk about when we talk about love. Introduction / Carl Wilson; title: The artists we deserve / Nick Hornby; title: With the lights on, it's less useless / Krist Novoselic; title: If the girls were all transported / Ann Powers; title: The easiest thing to forget / Mary Gaitskill; title: Compared to what? / Jason King; title: Let's talk about Diana Ross / Daphne A. Brooks; title: Deep in the game / Drew Daniel; title: Children of the corn / Sukhdev Sandhu; title: Acting in and out of context / James Franco; title: Too much sociology / Marco Roth and the editors of n+1; title: Giving up on giving up on good taste / Jonathan Sterne; title: When I come home / Owen Pallett; title: Playlist: let's listen to love / Sheila Heti; title: Part three, Afterword. Let's talk later / Carl Wilson.