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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Classics -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/The Beatles -- Plastic Dno Band/John Lennon -- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" /The Rolling Stones -- Exile on Main Street/The Rolling Stones -- Blood on the Tracks/Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan's Blue Highways: The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 -- It's a Thursday Night in Athens, Georgia -- The Athens Scene -- R.E.M.'s Brave New World -- Rock Criticism and the Rocker: A Conversation With Peter Buck -- Lives and Deaths -- Blues Legends -- Eric Clapton: A Life at the Crossroads -- Kurt Cobain: 1967-1994 -- No Mercy: Leonard Cohen's Tales from the Dark Side -- Jerry Garcia: Don't Look Back -- Robyn Hitchcock: A Wry Poet to the Devoted -- John Lennon: The Man -- John Mellencamp's Void in the Heartland -- Father of Bluegrass Is Dead at 84: Bill Monroe -- Free at Last -- Artist of the Year: The Rolling Stones -- Phil Spector: Back to Mono (1958-1969) -- Sting -- 10,000 Maniacs Break Loose -- U2: Zoo World Order -- Wu-Tang Family Values -- Recordings -- The Bristol Sessions: Various Artists -- Autobiography ofMistachuck: Chuck D -- Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads and Library of Congress Recordings -- Ice-T Fires: Black Rage, Dope Beats -- Flying Cowboys: Rickie Lee Jones -- One From the Heartland: John Cougar Mellencamp's Scarecrow -- Life After Death: The Notorious B.I.G. -- Graham Parker Squeezes New Sparks: The Mona Lisa's Sister -- Songsfora Blue Guitar: Red House Painters -- Their Way: Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash -- The Dream Fades: Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. -- New Bruce: Lose Your Illusions -- 10,000 Maniacs: This Side of Paradise -- U2: "Zooropa," MonAmour -- In the Crosshairs -- Music's Mean Season -- Opinion: Cop Killer -- Opinion: Country Music -- Opinion: Mark David Chapman -- The Next Multiplatinum Cash Cow -- Opinion: Broadway Production of Tommy -- Culture Watch, Culture Wars -- I'll Take My Stand: A Defense ofpopular Culture -- Anarchy in the U.S.S.R.? -- Erotic Terrorism: The Enemy Is Us -- Pop Goes to College -- Popular Music: Political and Social Realities Can Be Discovered in Serious Criticism of the Medium -- Postrnodern Romance -- Village Idiots -- Talking Big: Can Eric Bogosian Tune In and Turn On without Selling Out? -- A Punk's Past Recaptured: T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The Product: Bucky Wunderlick, Rock & Roll, and Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street -- Dharma Bums and Other Friends: Ginsberg'S Photos -- An Ambitious History Lesson: Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces -- Hot Writers: Neil Sheehan and Taylor Branch -- Epilogue: The Naked Transcript -- Index
Rocking My Life Away represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and other publications, Anthony DeCurtis reveals his ongoing engagement with rock & roll as artistic forum, source of personal inspiration, and compelling site of cultural struggle. Including significant new work—liner notes commissioned for the Phil Spector box set and a spirited discussion with Peter Buck of R.E.M. about rock criticism, for example—DeCurtis also ventures with insight and power beyond the world of rock & roll. A joint profile of the political writers Neil Sheehan and Taylor Branch and provocative looks at the work of novelists Don DeLillo and T. Coraghessan Boyle round out this eclectic collection