Synopses & Reviews
Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sortnovelists, poets, journalists, musicians are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.
Review
Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/11
“Maintaining the series’ high standard…A great incentive to fire up Spotify, or even the old stereo.”
Publishers Weekly, 10/3/11 “These collected pieces offer a soulful anthem to the vibrancy of music writing today.”
Synopsis
Twelfth in the acclaimed series of annual collections celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and more
About the Author
Alex Ross is a music critic for the
New Yorker and the author of the acclaimed bestseller
The Rest Is Noise. He lives in New York City.
Daphne Carr is a music scholar and the author of Pretty Hate Machine. She lives in New York City.