David Hajdu (in conversation with Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic) - Heroes And Villains

Oct 20 2009 7:00 pm

The music critic for The New Republic, Hajdu joins Wieseltier, the magazine’s literary editor, for a discussion of jazz, pop, movies, comics, and all manner of things cultural. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, as in his books The Ten-Cent Plague and Positively Fourth Street, Hajdu combines deep knowledge of popular art with its socio-historical context. Along with pieces on Elmer Fudd, Woody Guthrie, Ray Charles, and others, the book features a profile of Billy Eckstine which celebrates not just his talent but the daring presentation of sex appeal and black machismo that tested the limits of a racially-segregated country and transformed American music.

Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (Paperback)

By David Hajdu
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780306818332
Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: Da Capo Press, 10/2009
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