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Smart analytical music criticism, love stuff like this and voices other than cishet male are rare.

Thank you for returning my book with these AMAZING Prince-inspired coasters, @BarbaraTheBibliophage ! I‘m excited to use them once we get to the new place.

@Riveted_Reader_Melissa I am still working on The Death of Expertise - I‘m sorry that I‘m running so far behind! If you need it back quickly let me know and I will finish it on Kindle.

Thanks for another great nonfiction Summer!

cc: @tjwill

I couldn‘t possible love this book more! The topic is both timely and relevant, even though the book covers decades of music and social history. And Geffen does an amazing job of analyzing musical styles and musicians‘ personal experiences and choices. Their writing has some truly luminous moments as well. Thank you @daniwithtea for adding it to our #nfornonfiction #groupread !

Full review http://www.TheBibliophage.com #thebibliophage2021

This book discusses how popular music has been an influence in breaking gender norms in recent culture. There were many artists I had anticipated, and some surprises as well. I learned a lot, and I enjoyed listening to the music and artists mentioned while I was reading!

There was a Prince section in this book that briefly talked about his break with his record company when he changed his name to the symbol. The rift was about the fact that he was putting out music too fast, they didn‘t want him saturating the market, they wanted to make fans wait & clammed for the next release, but Prince didn‘t want to be held back. ⤵️

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This arrived today! I‘m looking forward to starting it!

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#WonderousWednesday. @Eggs

This was a good one @daniwithtea ,& it hit me at the right time too (June is Pride Month). I blew through it in just a few days, plus it made me keep wanting to stop and pull out old albums, play favorites, and google new songs. I liked that the analysis was both deeply personal, but also analytical at times, and how it explored rule breakers, and how some of those broken rules became subsumed into the next iteration of acceptable masculinity.

This was *so good*, I blew threw it a lot quicker than I expected to. @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I might ship it out this week if you don‘t mind getting it early. I don‘t want to mess up the pipeline to @BarbaraTheBibliophage and @tjwill :)

The first page is sure starting off with a bang! #nfornonfiction #assumingwearestilltaggingthings #tumblrhabitsdiehard