Best Music Writing

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 sort--novelists, 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.

Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 11/29/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780306819636

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2011
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2011
Booklist 11/01/2011 pg. 19
Library Journal 11/15/2011 pg. 76

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.