“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.”
Join the conversation with co-editors Daniel Wolff and Danny Alexander and writer Lauren Onkey and friends as they talk about the work of Dave Marsh and how it fits into the story of our times. There will undoubtedly be lots of music recollections personal insights and sharing of experiences, and there might even be some music!
*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
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