A Spy in the House of Loud : : New York Songs and Stories / / Chris Stamey.
Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, “the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.” In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes u...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Music Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface The Story behind the Painting
- 1 Don’t Stop to Think
- 2 I Love the Sound of the Traffic
- 3 In Our Wildest Dreams
- 4 Have You Seen the Last Elite?
- 5 The More You Learn, the Less You Know
- 6 Pavement Slapping My Feet
- 7 Eyes Submerge Your Face
- 8 Caress and Spite
- 9 I Loved You, and You Did, Too
- 10 Exhilaration; or, Gorging a Neuronic Aperture
- 11 Just Like Yesterday
- 12 Who Will Baudelaire?
- 13 Cut It Hot, Cut It Up, Cut It Clean, Cut It Slow
- 14 Your Ballerina Curls
- 15 She Took the Soda Pop
- 16 Wine in Plastic Cups
- 17 The Distance That Surrounds Us
- 18 The Air Is Full of Air
- 19 Like a Party Balloon on the Strand
- 20 Never a Time
- 21 Anyone Who Had to Laugh
- 22 The Whole World’s Dirt
- 23 Newspapers Collect on the Street
- 24 I Want to Break Your Heart
- 25 All Around You Now the Stars Are Falling Down
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Listener’s Guide
- Notes
- Selected Discography