Best Music Writing 2007

Da Capo Press 2007

Edited by Robert Christgau and Daphne Carr

Carl Wilson If Music is the Answer, What's the Question? Said the Gramophone
Ann Powers Latinos Give New Life to Neil Diamond Anthem Los Angeles Times
Michaelangelo Matos A Double History of the Supremes' Love Child Beat Research
Jane Dark white bread black beer Jane Dark
Sasha Frere-Jones On Top: Mariah Carey's Record-Breaking Career The New Yorker
Daphne A. Brooks Suga Mama, Politicized The Nation
Chris Ryan YEAH I'M THREATENING YA! I KEEP HEDGE FUNDS! I'MA F--- AROUND AND BARF!, BUY KINGDOM COME AND GET A F---ING FREE TOTE BAG!, Gabe Said "We're Into Movements"
Jonathan Lethem Being James Brown Rolling Stone
David Kastin Nica's Story: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness Popular Music and Society
Erik Davis Always Coming Home: Joanna Newsom Arthur
Rob Harvilla Spankmaster and Servant: On the Psycho/Genius Double Helix and XXX Appeal of Kool Keith Village Voice
Jody Rosen G-d's Reggae Star: How Matisyahu Became a Pop Phenomenon Slate
Arye Dworken Straight Outta Israel Heeb
Jack Erwin, Sean A. Malcolm, Andrea Duncan-Mao, Adam Matthews, Justin Monroe, Anselm Samuel, Vanessa Satten I Told You So: The Making of Reasonable Doubt XXL
Kris Ex The History of Cocaine Rap: All White (excerpt) XXL
Elisabeth Vincentelli The Eurovision Song Contest is Moving Control of European Pop Music Out of the Hands of the Old-School Powers-And European Politics Might Not Be Far Behind (excerpt) The Believer
Dave Simpson Excuse Me, Weren't You in the Fall? The Guardian
Will Hermes (as Robert Barbara) #32 - Just Because It's a Song Doesn't Mean it's True Loose Strife
Brandon Perkins Industrial Psychology URB
Sarah Godfrey Multiple Personality Disorder Washington City Paper
Dylan Hicks Man in Love: Barbra Streisand, Barry Gibb, and the Autobiographical Criticism of Doug Belknap The Rake
Jessica Shaw People, People Who Love Barbra Entertainment Weekly
Nitsuh Abebe Making Plans for Daniel Pitchfork
Jessica Hopper SWF, 45 Chicago Reader
Jay Boronski Gimme Back My Bone: Pondering the Ineffable Sound of Classic Rock that Rocks San Francisco Bay Guardian
David Byrne 5.31.06: Heavy Theater David Byrne Journal
Nick Southall Imperfect Sound Forever Stylus
Robert Forster A True Hipster The Monthly
Richard Hell Rock 'n' Roll High School New York Times
John Swensen The Bands Played On Offbeat
Kelefa Sanneh Gangsta Gumbo New York Times
Douglas Wolk The Syncher, Not the Song: The Irresistible Rise of the Numa Numa Dance The Believer