Eric Weisbard uses Elvis Presley’s 1956 recording of Big Mama Thornton’s song “Hound Dog†to reflect on the history of rock music, race, commodification, and popular culture.
Eric Weisbard Book order
- 2023
- 2021
Songbooks
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
In Songbooks veteran music critic and popular music scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to American popular music writing, from William Billings's 1770 New-England-Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded.
- 2007
Guns n' Roses Use Your Illusion I and II
- 125 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Shows how the album - Use Your Illusion - has matured into a work whose baroque excesses have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament for every character trait that had hitherto marked him as an irredeemable loser.