Items related to Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young...

Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man - Softcover

 
9780062238801: Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
“An intellectual autobiography that beautifully captures what it feels like when a cultural experience trapdoors you into a new life.” (Grantland)

“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.” (Slate)

“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.” (Rob Sheffield, author of Turn Around Bright Eyes and Love is a Mix Tape)

“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.” (Will Hermes, author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever)

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.” (Ann Powers, Author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America and, with the artist, Tori Amos: Piece By Piece)

“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.” (Eric Lott, author of Love and Theft)

“Brimming with insight.” (Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny Cash: A Life)

“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.” (?uestlove)

“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.” (―Jody Rosen)

“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.” (Rolling Stone)
From the Back Cover:

“Excellent. . . . Christgau writes with contagious insight about the records, novels, movies and paintings that have shaped his thinking.”—Rolling Stone

The Dean of American Rock Critics, 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 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. It is also a loving portrait of a lost New York—an homage to the city of Christgau’s youth, from Queens to the Lower East Side, 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.

“Honest, detailed, stirring and sweet.”—Time

“A deeply smart, charmingly gregarious read.”—New York magazine

“A New York love story like no other. . . . As caustic and confrontational as a Clash single, yet as sustaining as an Al Green LP . . . instantly memorable.”—Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is a Mix Tape

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherDeyStrBks
  • Publication date2016
  • ISBN 10 0062238809
  • ISBN 13 9780062238801
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages384
  • Rating

Shipping: £ 3.37
From Canada to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780062238795: Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780062238795
Publisher: Dey Street Books, 2015
Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Harper Collins Publisher (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Paperback Quantity: 2
Seller:
BookOutlet
(Thorold, ON, Canada)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. Seller Inventory # 9780062238801B

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 6.17
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 3.37
From Canada to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Dey Street Books (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Books Unplugged
(Amherst, NY, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk0062238809xvz189zvxnew

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 10.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Dey Street Books (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Soft Cover Quantity: 10
Seller:
booksXpress
(Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780062238801

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 11
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Dey Street Books (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Softcover Quantity: 5
Seller:
GreatBookPrices
(Columbia, MD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 24518932-n

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 9.23
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 2.09
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Dey Street Books 2/16/2016 (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Paperback or Softback Quantity: 5
Seller:
BargainBookStores
(Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man 0.6. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780062238801

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 11.39
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Dey Street Books (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Lakeside Books
(Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!. Seller Inventory # OTF-S-9780062238801

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 9.31
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 3.16
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Dey Street Books (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0062238809-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 12.55
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by Harper Collins Publishers (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
INDOO
(Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Brand New. Seller Inventory # 0062238809

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 9.90
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 3.16
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Christgau, Robert
Published by HarperEnt (2016)
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Lucky's Textbooks
(Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2215580006296

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 10.65
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 3.16
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Robert Christgau
ISBN 10: 0062238809 ISBN 13: 9780062238801
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Grand Eagle Retail
(Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of our great essayists and journaliststhe Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgautakes 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 Manhattans Avenue B forty years before it was cool, witnessed Monterey and Woodstock and Chicago 68, and the first abortion speak-out. Hes 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 Kazins A Walker in the City, E. B. Whites Here Is New York, Joseph Mitchells Up in the Old Hotel, and Patti Smiths Just Kids, it is a loving portrait of a lost New York. Its an homage to the city of Christgaus youth from Queens to the Lower East Sidea city that exists mostly in memory today. And its a love story about the Greenwich Village girl who roamed this realm of possibility with him. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780062238801

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 15.03
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book