The Grammar Of Rock

by Alexander Theroux
The Grammar Of Rock
  • ISBN-13: 9781606996164
  • Author(s): Alexander Theroux
  • Subject: Rock & Pop music|rock & pop music
  • Publisher: Fantagraphics
  • Imprint: Fantagraphics
  • Publication Date: 14-02-2013
  • Format: h/b

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National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America's least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colourful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock: silly song titles; maddening instruments; shrieking divas; clunker lines; the worst (and best) songs ever written; geniuses of the art; movie stars who should never have raised their voice in song but who were too shameless to refuse a mic and the excess of awful Christmas recordings.
About the book

National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America's least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colourful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock: silly song titles; maddening instruments; shrieking divas; clunker lines; the worst (and best) songs ever written; geniuses of the art; movie stars who should never have raised their voice in song but who were too shameless to refuse a mic and the excess of awful Christmas recordings.

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