View the Video Dialogue: Music Writing Like Our Lives Depend On It
Music Writing
Like Our Lives Depend On It
An Introduction:
Kick Out The Jam
Complete Dialogue:
Music Writing Like Our Lives Depend On It
“Since 1969, Dave Marsh has been writing about music like our lives depended on it. His friend, Greil Marcus, has described Marsh’s writing as ‘heartfelt, heart on your sleeve, blood in your mouth.’” These words from Lauren Onkey’s introduction are an apt description of a book that truly our lives depend upon: Dave Marsh’s Kick Out The Jams, subtitled “Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing.” This volume is an astute, acerbic, and outstanding collection of his writing. And, as Steve Nathans-Kelly concludes in his review of the book, “Kick Out the Jams tells the story of our times and his, rarely in a way we’ve heard it before, and never in a way that’s easy to hear it, but always in the way it must be told.”
Kick Out The Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing
By Dave Marsh, published by Simon & Schuster, ISBN13: 9781982197162 $28.99
Also available in an electronic edition and an audiobook read by Dennis Boutsikaris
Order from your local bookstore, on line from Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/p/books/kick-out-the-jams/18899617?ean=9781982197162), or find it at your local library
*A program in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets (and Artists and Musicians) for Change Hosted by the National Cultural Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Recommended Reading:
“Abolition and Cultural Work: Making the Revolution Legible”
Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff, published by Harper Collins
and More Poems About Money by Daniel Wolff, published by Four Way Books
Real Love No Drama: The Music of Mary J Blige by Danny Alexander, published by University of Texas Press
Also from the League: Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
https://lrna.org/lrna-program/
The “Voices of the League” series of articles on our website are intended to encourage a dialogue with developing revolutionaries. Subscribe: https://lrna.org/subscribe-to-voices-of-the-league/
The Future is Up to Us, by Nelson Peery, available in paperback for $10 plus shipping; Download for free here: https://lrna.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/The-Future-is-Up-to-Us.pdf
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