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Book

60 songs that explain the '90s

Call Number

  • 782.42164 H3429 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Twelve, Hachette Book Group, 2023.

Physical Description

xvii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous RB to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperately"--

Notes

"The Ringer."

Contents

  • Chaos agents
  • Sellouts (or not) (or maybe)
  • Women vs. "women in rock"
  • Vivid geography, or, everybody hates a tourist
  • Villains + adversaries
  • Flukes + comebacks + spectacular weirdos
  • Teenage hijinx
  • Romance + sex + immaturity
  • Myths vs. mortals
  • Big feelings.

Subjects

Added Authors

Tara Jacoby