Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough:
Essays in Honor of Robert Christgau
Edited by Tom Carson, Kit Rachlis and Jeff Salamon
Paperback, 2002, Nortex Press, 253 pages, $15 US.
Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough was privately published on the
occasion of Robert Christgau's 60th birthday.
Table of Contents
- Kit Rachlis: Preface
- Jeff Salamon: Foreward
- Tom Carson: Xgau
Part I. Any Old Way We Choose It
- Joe Levy: Thursday
- Barbara O'Dair: Bob Is God, or, Two or Three Things You Don't Know About Him
- Steve Erickson: A Concept of Two
- Mim Udovitch: A Less Treacherous Place
- Greg Tate: Coming Through
- Michaelangelo Matos: The Media Center
Part II. (If He's Acting Like a King, That's Because) He's a Human Being
- Julian Dibbell: Pink
- Perry Brandston: Bob's My Uncle
- Robert Sietsema: Vacation Bob
- Ariel Swartley: Scenes From a Life (or Lives)
- RJ Smith: The Talk
- Joe Gross: Robert Christgau: Behind the Music
Part III. The Academy in Peril
- Perry Meisel: In Exile
- Simon Frith: An Essay on Criticism
- Frank Kogan: Democratizing the Intellect
- Greg Sandow: Why Classical Music Needs Rock & Roll
- John Rockwell: Beauty and the Bob
- Debra Rae Cohen: To Hell With the Great Divide, or How I Became an Academic
Interlude I: A Couple of Young Rock Critics Sitting Around Writing
- Greil Marcus: Letters From Bob Christgau, 1969-71
Part IV. Edit This
- Dave Hickey: Blading the Honey Pot
- Gary Giddins: Unedited by Robert Christgau
- Ed Ward: Detail Work
- Holly George-Warren: A Few Thoughts on Father Bob
- Carol Cooper: "The Rules of Bob Xgau"
Part V. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business
- Milo Miles: Consumer Guide to Consumer Guides
- Arion Berger: School Days
- Eric Weisbard: Too Much, Too Many Promos
- Glenn Kenny: Bob's Your Uncle
- Peter Stampfel: Happy Birthday, Bob
Interlude II: Christgau Remembers
- Barbara O'Dair: A Conversation With Robert Christgau
Part VI. In Theory
- Jon Dolan & Laura Singara: Wanna Buy a Discourse?
- John Piccarella: Notes Toward a Phenomenology of Critical Listening
- Lindsay Waters: Come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say: Listening in a State of Distraction
- Jason Gross: Charles Keil Follows His Muse
- Tom Smucker: My Favorite Song in German
Part VII. In Practice
- John Morthland: Los Lobos
- Marshall Berman: The Jazz Singer: Love and Theft
- Nick Catucci: The Crying of Lot MTV
- John F. Szwed: Notes on the Occasion of the Banning of 2 Live Crew's As Nasty as They Wanna Be
- Andrew Ross: The Trouble With Trance
- Georgia Christgau: Turn Out the Lights
- Tom Johnson: Hymns
Part VIII. A Rock & Roll Critic Is Something to Be
Envoi
- Carola Dibbell: Real Piece of Work (excerpt)
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Neither Tom Hull nor Robert Christgau have any financial interest
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