Another Little Piece of My Heart by Richard Goldstein
A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart. - starred review, Kirkus Reviews
In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein approached The Village Voice with a novel idea. I want to be a rock critic, he said. What's that? the editor replied. It was a logical question, since rock criticism didn't yet exist. In the weekly column he would produce for theVoice, Goldstein became the first person to write regularly in a major publication about the music that changed our lives. He believed deeply in the power of rock, and, long before it was acceptable, he championed the idea that this music was a serious art form. From his unique position in journalism, he saw the full arc of events that shaped culture and politics in the 1960s--and participated in them, too. He toured with Janis Joplin, spent a day at the Grateful Dead house in San Francisco, and dropped acid with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. He was present for Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, the student uprising at Columbia, and the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. He was challenged to a boxing match by Norman Mailer, and took Susan Sontag to her first disco. Goldstein developed close relationships with several rock legends--Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, to name two--and their early deaths came as a wrenching shock, fueling his disillusionment as he watched the music he loved rapidly evolve from a communal rite to a vast industry--and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval fade away. Another Little Piece of My Heart is the intimate memoir of the writer as a young man with profound ambition. It is also a sweeping personal account of a decade that no one else could provide--a deeply moving, unparalleled document of rock and revolution in America.
Goldstein, Richard: - Richard Goldstein is a founder of rock criticism, starting at the Village Voice in 1966, and has written on culture, politics, and sexuality for the New York Times, Harper's, New York magazine, the Nation, and elsewhere. He served as executive editor of the Village Voice and was named GLAAD columnist of the year for his gay activism. His books include The Poetry of Rock, Reporting the Counterculture, and Homocons: The Rise of the Gay Right. He is an adjunct professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781620408872 |
| ISBN 10 | 1620408872 |
| Title | Another Little Piece of My Heart |
| Author | Richard Goldstein |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury USA |
| Year published | 2015-04-14 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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