[Da Capo Best Music Writing 01] • Best Music Writing 2011 by Alex Ross, Daphne Carr -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF BEST MUSIC WRITING: Title Page Introduction Beethoven’s Kapow Keep Tickin and Tockin Work It All Around the Clock

ERRBODY GETTIN CRUNK CRUNK FIGHT TILL WE DO IT RIGHT EVIL GIRLY GAMES I’M ABOUT TO BARF SERIOUSLY WITH EVERY MOVE I DIE BABY SHUT UP HEARD ENOUGH

The Grandest Duke Growing Up Gaga The Mothership, lost in space

ENDLESSLY IMITATED WHOLE DIFFERENT LOVE RAN OUT OF JUICE HUNTING A UFO POSTSCRIPT

Excerpt from How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop

AXIS OF EAVESDROPPERS

Curiosity Slowdown Meet Your #operaplot 2010 Winners

RUNNERS UP

A Pop Critic Takes on the Ring - Part 1, Das Rheingold Word Why We Fight #5: Why Risks are Risky Tour Diary Day Four: Rock and Roll is Dead Jetlagged Manifesto Making Pop for Capitalist Pigs The Underground Rises Pantha du Prince Wormrot, Defeatist, Mutant Supremacy, Psychic Limb and Curandera—October ... Giant Steps - The Survival of a Great Jazz Pianist Will.i.am and the Science of Global Pop Domination

MAKE ART WORK IN SQUARES CONTROL THE CLOUD WHOEVER CRACKS DANCE MUSIC WINS ADAPT EVERY TUNE TO A SPECIFIC USE SELL YOUR MUSIC TO THE AUDIENCE, THEN SELL THE AUDIENCE REAL GANGSTAS DON’T RAP ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE GIRLS THE WHOLE SONG SHOULD BE A CHORUS G O STRAIGHT TO JOY

Notes from a Wedding For the Record The Curious Case of Nicki Minaj “Gasping, But Somehow Still Alive” - The Persistence of Meat Is Murder NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Searching for the Heart of Country The Honeymooners The Long War The “Thriller” Diaries

October 13, 1983; 8 p.m. October 13, 1983; 10:30 p.m. October 23, 1983; 9:45 a.m.

The Runaways - Wild Thing The Fun Stuff Direction Nowhere I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free - The Secret Diary of Nina Simone

DON’T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD ILOVESYOU, PORGY MISSISSIPPI GODDAM I PUT A SPELL ON YOU NE ME QUITTE PAS

Darkness Invisible OTHER NOTABLE MUSIC WRITING OF 2010 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS CREDITS Copyright Page