Imagen 1 de 3
Galería
Imagen 1 de 3
¿Quieres vender uno?
Going into the City : Portrait of a Critic As a Young Man by Robert Christgau...
USD4,50
Aproximadamente3,87 EUR
Estado:
En muy buen estado
Libro que se ha leído y que no tiene un aspecto nuevo, pero que está en un estado excelente. No hay desperfectos visibles en la tapa y se incluye sobrecubierta, si procede, para las tapas duras. Todas las páginas están en perfecto estado, sin arrugas ni roturas y no falta ninguna. El texto no está subrayado ni resaltado de forma alguna, y no hay anotaciones en los márgenes. Puede presentar marcas de identificación mínimas en la contraportada o las guardas. Muy poco usado. Consulta el anuncio del vendedor para obtener más información y la descripción de cualquier posible imperfección.
- ¡Cómpralo ya!Going into the City : Portrait of a Critic As a Young Man by Robert Christgau...
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Envío:
USD5,22 (aprox. 4,49 EUR) USPS Media MailTM.
Ubicado en: Fernley, Nevada, Estados Unidos
Entrega:
Entrega prevista entre el vie. 15 ago. y el mié. 20 ago. a 94104
Devoluciones:
30 días para devoluciones. El comprador paga el envío de la devolución..
Pagos:
Compra con confianza
El vendedor asume toda la responsabilidad de este anuncio.
N.º de artículo de eBay:324138846325
Última actualización el 22 ago 2024 21:10:29 H.EspVer todas las actualizacionesVer todas las actualizaciones
Características del artículo
- Estado
- ISBN
- 9780062238795
Acerca de este producto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062238795
ISBN-13
9780062238795
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202431129
Product Key Features
Book Title
Going Into the City : Portrait of a Critic As a Young Man
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, General, Literary, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-563659
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
From growing up . . . to formulating his critical process in the Lower East Side of the 1960s, Christgau takes as rigorous an analytical approach as he does with his reviewing. It's as much a memoir of the development of his editorial sensibility as it is of his life., Soul satisfying . . .Vintage Christgau here--wise, sharp, funny, rigorous, and genuinely searching, a mighty work of reflection by a major critic who has never turned his back on the pop lives of everyday people., An excellent memoir . . . full of rock-critic lore, with vivid cameo appearances by titans like Greil Marcus, Lester Bangs, and Ellen Willis . . . Christgau writes with contagious insight about the records, novels, movies and paintings that have shaped his thinking., I've waited years for this book. An intellectual bildungsroman in which one of our keenest cultural critics unpacks his own New York story alongside . . . the evolution of pop music criticism--an artform that owes him more than anyone., Christgau is the last true-blue record critic on earth. [He's] pretty much who I make my records for. He's . . . the last of that whole Lester Bangs generation of record reviewers, and I still heed his words., A personal bildungsroman . . [he] brought to a relatively disrespected popular genre in the 1960s and '70s a new degree of critical intensity and erudition, delivered with an American vernacular energy and wit and let-it-fly opinionatedness., Soul satisfying . . .Vintage Christgau here—wise, sharp, funny, rigorous, and genuinely searching, a mighty work of reflection by a major critic who has never turned his back on the pop lives of everyday people., An intellectual autobiography that beautifully captures what it feels like when a cultural experience trapdoors you into a new life., A New York love story like no other—the greatest of rock & roll writers spends a lifetime devoted to a city . . . as caustic and confrontational as a Clash single, yet as sustaining as an Al Green LP—a story as instantly memorable as Robert Christgau's voice., Remarkable in its unflagging conviction that the disciplined attention a critic applies to art ought to apply to the self as well . . . Also, it's funny and has a lot of sex and music in it., Here . . . Christgau proves his essentiality with sharp insights and a profound take on popular culture., Often maddening, always thought-provoking . . . With Pauline Kael, Christgau is arguably one of the two most important American mass-culture critics of the second half of the 20th century., Remarkable. Contains the energy, bravado, and heart of rock 'n' roll itself-and far, far more depth and ambition than we expect in what passes for memoir these days., Song titles, political movements, and aesthetic notions, in particular Christgau's restless, kaleidoscopic portrait of the late '60s . . . What makes good criticism work, Christgau argues, is 'a brew of genre knowledge, general knowledge, aesthetic insight, moral passion, palpable delight, prose style, more prose style, and what-have-you.', Going Into the City is at once a vivid reminder of one of New York's golden ages and a blessed glimpse into the forming mind of one of our great critics. Both hilarious and full of juicy detail . . . in that utterly inimitable voice., I've waited years for this book. An intellectual bildungsroman in which one of our keenest cultural critics unpacks his own New York story alongside . . . the evolution of pop music criticism—an artform that owes him more than anyone., A New York love story like no other--the greatest of rock & roll writers spends a lifetime devoted to a city . . . as caustic and confrontational as a Clash single, yet as sustaining as an Al Green LP--a story as instantly memorable as Robert Christgau's voice., To read Going Into the City is to spend hours in the company of a completely sui generis critical mind, one that's not only encyclopedically knowledgeable about mid-to-late 20th-century pop culture but capable of lapidary prose, astute insight, and savage wit., Saying something new and distinctive, even about art that's derivative and undistinguished, is a critic's perennial challenge. Christgau embraces it with undimming energy, his diction swerving between the academy and the street, his sentences unspooling and spilling references without waiting for you to catch them., "With the possible exception of his friend Greil Marcus, no American music writer has exerted more influence over the tastes of rock music "consumers" (as he'd insist on calling them) and on the craft of other rock critics."
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092/2 B
Synopsis
One of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art. Lifelong New Yorker Robert Christgau has been writing about pop culture since he was twelve and getting paid for it since he was twenty-two, covering rock for Esquire in its heyday and personifying the music beat at the Village Voice for over three decades. Christgau listened to Alan Freed howl about rock 'n' roll before Elvis, settled east of Manhattan's Avenue B forty years before it was cool, witnessed Monterey and Woodstock and Chicago '68, and the first abortion speak-out. He's caught Coltrane in the East Village, Muddy Waters in Chicago, Otis Redding at the Apollo, the Dead in the Haight, Janis Joplin at the Fillmore, the Rolling Stones at the Garden, the Clash in Leeds, Grandmaster Flash in Times Square, and every punk band you can think of at CBGB. Christgau chronicled many of the key cultural shifts of the last half century and revolutionized the cultural status of the music critic in the process. Going Into the City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him, and the music, books, and films that showed him the way. Like Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, E. B. White's Here Is New York, Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel, and Patti Smith's Just Kids, it is a loving portrait of a lost New York. It's an homage to the city of Christgau's youth from Queens to the Lower East Side--a city that exists mostly in memory today. And it's a love story about the Greenwich Village girl who roamed this realm of possibility with him., One of our great essayists and music journalists, the Dean of American Rock Critics, leads a heady tour through his life and times in this atmospheric, visceral memoir-both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art Lifelong New Yorker Robert Christgau has been writing about pop culture since he was twelve and getting paid for it since he was twenty-two, covering rock for Esquire in its heyday and personifying the music beat at The Village Voice for over three decades. Christgau listened to Alan Freed howl about rock and roll before Elvis, settled east of Manhattan's Avenue B forty years before it was cool, wit-nessed Monterey and Woodstock and Chicago 1968 and the first abortion speakout. He caught Coltrane in the East Village, Muddy Waters in Chicago, Otis Redding at the Apollo, the Dead in the Haight, Janis Joplin at the Fillmore, the Clash in Leeds, Grandmaster Flash in Times Square, and every punk band you can think of at CBGB. Christgau chronicled many of the key cultural shifts of the last half century and revolutionized the cultural status of the music critic in the process. Going into the City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him, and the music, books, and films that showed him the way. Like Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, E. B. White's Here Is New York, Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel, and Patti Smith's Just Kids, it is a loving portrait of a lost New York. It's an homage to the city of Christgau's youth from Queens to the Lower East Side-a city that exists mostly in memory today. And it's a love story about the Greenwich Village girl who roamed this realm of possibility with him., One of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art. Lifelong New Yorker Robert Christgau has been writing about pop culture since he was twelve and getting paid for it since he was twenty-two, covering rock for Esquire in its heyday and personifying the music beat at the Village Voice for over three decades. Christgau listened to Alan Freed howl about rock 'n' roll before Elvis, settled east of Manhattan's Avenue B forty years before it was cool, witnessed Monterey and Woodstock and Chicago '68, and the first abortion speak-out. He's caught Coltrane in the East Village, Muddy Waters in Chicago, Otis Redding at the Apollo, the Dead in the Haight, Janis Joplin at the Fillmore, the Rolling Stones at the Garden, the Clash in Leeds, Grandmaster Flash in Times Square, and every punk band you can think of at CBGB. Christgau chronicled many of the key cultural shifts of the last half century and revolutionized the cultural status of the music critic in the process. Going Into the City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him, and the music, books, and films that showed him the way. Like Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, E. B. White's Here Is New York , Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel , and Patti Smith's Just Kids , it is a loving portrait of a lost New York. It's an homage to the city of Christgau's youth from Queens to the Lower East Side--a city that exists mostly in memory today. And it's a love story about the Greenwich Village girl who roamed this realm of possibility with him.
LC Classification Number
ML423.C567A3 2015
Descripción del artículo del vendedor
Acerca de este vendedor
Smokecreekbooks
99,8% de votos positivos•13 mil artículos vendidos
Registrado como vendedor particularPor tanto, no se aplican los derechos de los consumidores derivados de las leyes de protección de los consumidores de la UE. La Garantía al cliente de eBay sigue aplicando a la mayoría de compras. Más informaciónMás información
Votos de vendedor (5.626)
- 2***r (169)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Últimos 6 mesesCompra verificadaThe book arrived today in Very Good condition. It was packaged securely wrapped in bubble wrap and placed within a protective, eBay shipping bag. The item arrived fairly quick, and the shipping expense was reasonable. It was As Described on the website: near fine, used but with tight binding and clean interior, and signed by author. I think this book is a solid value for the price paid. Seller has done a great job with website description and photos. I’m pleased with my purchase. Thanks much!!
- j***3 (2252)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Mes pasadoCompra verificadaThis item arrived in excellent condition, exactly as shown in pictures & as described in the listing. Well packaged to make sure there were no issues affecting quality during the shipping process. The price paid for the item + shipping was extremely fair. Entire transaction went smoothly, no complaints. Highly satisfied with everything about this purchase and would recommend this seller to others.
- l***i (1190)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Últimos 6 mesesCompra verificadaExactly as described/pictured. Ordered June 1. Shipped June 13. Arrived June 20. Carefully packaged.
Más que explorar:
- Libros prácticos y de consulta literatura, poesía y crítica,
- Libros prácticos y de consulta literatura, poesía y crítica en latín,
- Libros prácticos y de consulta literatura, poesía y crítica en italiano,
- Cómics Spider-Man,
- Libros antiguos y de colección robert graves,
- Cómics y novelas gráficas americanos Spider-Man, en español,
- Cómics y novelas gráficas americanos Spider-Man, en inglés,
- Cómics y novelas gráficas americanos superheroicos Spider-Man,
- Cómics y novelas gráficas americanos Marvel Comics Spider-Man,
- Libros de literatura y narrativa The Walking Dead en inglés