Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822362258)

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in this new collection of Eddy's writing. In pieces culled from outlets as varied as the Village Voice, Creem magazine, the streaming site Rhapsody, music message boards, and his high school newspaper, Eddy covers everything from the Beastie Boys to 1920s country music, Taylor Swift to German new wave, Bruce Springsteen to occult metal. With an encyclopedic knowledge, unabashed irreverence, and a captivating style, Eddy rips up popular music histories and stitches them back together using his appreciation of the lost, ignored, and maligned. In so doing, he shows how pop music is bigger, and more multidimensional and compelling than most people can imagine.

Author: Chuck Eddy
ISBN-10: 0822362252
ISBN-13: 9780822362258
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2016
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2016 pg. 73
Choice 02/01/2017

About the Author
Chuck Eddy is an independent music journalist living in Austin, Texas. Formerly the music editor at the Village Voice and a senior editor at Billboard, he is author of Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism, also published by Duke University Press; The Accidental Evolution of Rock 'n' Roll: A Misguided Tour Through Popular Music; and Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe.