Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music
Martha Bayles
Lengthy diatribe on the “perverse” influences of artistic Modernism and Postmodernism in popular music. Surely one of the most prudish, misguided, shallow, reactionary, bitter and, yes, perverse (she likes Warhol but despises McLaren?) books ever written about popular culture by an obviously intelligent person. But at least she hates U2. Fun reading. MG
Publisher: University of Chicago
Paperback: 453 pages
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