Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories
The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other Notable Music Writing" section. This year's honorable mentions list (or at least the galley for it, which sometimes differs from the final version) contains 129 further recommendations, for which we found links to 112, presented below. (All are from 2010.) Happy reading.
Nate "Igor" Smith Camille Dodero's Gathering Of The Juggalos retrospective is among the Honorable Mentions.
Stacey Anderson, "The Jazz Evangelism of Woody Allen" (Village Voice, July 1)
Noah Arjomand, "Rap in the Capital: Hip-Hop Tehran Style" (PBS Frontline, April 22)
Jake Austen, "The Woman on the Right" (Chicago Reader, Feb. 11)
Zach Baron, "Flux = Rad" (Slate, March 18)
Mike Barthel, "Scissor Sisters, 'Night Work': Yay for Sex and Drugs and Pleasure" (The Awl, June 28)
Angus Batey, "The Hip-Hop Heritage Society" (The Guardian, Oct. 7)
Trish Bendix, "The 'If I Was a Boy' Trend in Music" (After Ellen, Nov. 16)
Larry Bluemenfeld, "How Treme Can Get It Right" (Village Voice, March 30)
Jonathan Bradley, "Just Being Miley" (American Review, April 21)
Norman Brannon, "So, hey Nicki Minaj. It's real talk time." (Nervous Acid, Nov. 24)
Frank Bruni, "An Ageless Diva of a Certain Age" (New York Times, Nov. 21)
Brett Campbell, "Gonzalo Ruiz, Oboist, Restoring Bach" (Wall Street Journal, July 15)
Jon Caramanica, "Seeping Out of Houston, Slowly" (New York Times, Nov. 4)
Rodney Carmichael, "The Making of OutKast's Aquemini" (Creative Loafing, June 24)
Conor Christofferson, "About a Grandson" (Seattle Weekly, Aug. 18)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Travelling Music" (The Atlantic, Feb. 19)
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