From: Nicolai H. (soulsession_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 2005-06-03 02:53:08
One of my all-time favourites is Patrick Neate's 'Where You're At: Notes
From the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet' -although it's well known, so you
may have read it already...
otherwise, I'll be spending some time fighting my way through Kodwo Eshun's
'More Brilliant Than The Sun'. I got to page five last time, at which point
I got fed up with the obvious intelligentsiastic self-hyping of Eshun's
writing. Also, most of the stuff made little sense unless you spent a few
hours on each page and interpreted freely. But I think I'm ready to give it
another whack!
On the non-music side -you must (read: MUST!) dive into Mikhail Bulgakov's
'Master and Margarita'. Quite possibly the best novel/story ever written!
(go for the Burgin/O'Connor translation, by far the best).
Ah, summer reading...
-Nicolai
>From: "Padilla, John E." <jpadilla_at_utep.edu>
>To: <acid-jazz_at_ucsd.edu>
>Subject: [acid-jazz] Recommended Music Reading?
>Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:16:03 -0600
>
>Last summer I read a ton and so now I'm lacking in ideas about what or who
>to read about.
>
>What should I be reading?
>
>
>Here are some of my recommendations.
>
>Beneath the Underdog- Charles Mingus
>
>Love Saves the Day- Tim Lawrence
>
>Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway- Trever Schoonmaker
>
>John Coltrane- Bill Cole
>
>Performing "Out there" -David G. Such
>
>Black, blanc, beur : rap music and hip-hop culture in the francophone
>world- Alain-Philippe Durand
>
>
>
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