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Author:

Christgau, Robert,.

Title:

Going into the city : portrait of a critic as a young man / Robert Christgau.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Dey St.an imprint of William Morrow Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

367 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Christgau, Robert.
Journalists--New York--New York--Biography.
Music critics--New York--New York--Biography.
New York (N.Y)--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

"A memoir"--Dust jacket.

Contents:

The eighty-hour week -- The two sides of Murry Street -- The wonderful world of Jews -- Nonconformism can be fun -- Vacillations -- American studies -- The high '60s -- Aftermath -- Like a horse and a carriage -- Four owners, six editors, one paper -- Bon bon vie.

Summary:

The Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau takes us on a tour through his life and times in this 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.

ISBN:

0062238795
9780062238795

Locations:

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)