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Article: POP MUSIC
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- The Washington Post
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- January 1, 2006
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Don't know your Brand Nubian from your New Order? Dying to know
how Radiohead's "OK Computer" album came together? Wondering what in
the name of the Jesus and Mary Chain this "post-punk" thing is?
Then let the scribes be your sherpas.
Here are three recommended pop-music primers for neophytes and
music nerds alike.
With all apologies to Jeff Chang's "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A
History of the Hip-Hop Generation," Peter Guralnick's "Dream Boogie:
The Triumph of Sam Cooke" and Bob Spitz's "The Beatles: The
Biography," the smartest, most memorable music book of 2005 was David
Kamp and Steven Daly's "The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential
Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge."
A deliciously ...