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Artist:	CARDUCCI, JOE
Title:	Rock And The Pop Narcotic
Label:	REDOUBT
Format:	Book
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	REDOUBT

New, amazing third printing of this historic rock book by ex-SST staffer Joe Carducci. First published in 1990 (and later reissued by 2.13.61 in 1994), this book has been painfully out of print for much of the past decade. Now up to 529 pages, paperbound, with Carducci's new preface and afterword; elegantly redesigned. Includes photographs and an illustrated appendix. Subtitled Testament for the Electric Church, this is Carducci's book of Rock Theory, which reads like "a speed freak's hallucination into a dictaphone." A modernized, but still wonderfully dense update of Meltzer's Aesthetics of Rock, this book defined the literal "aesthetics" better than anyone before or since, connecting the dots from Sabbath to Black Flag like the ultimate mainline. Unlike just about every other book ever written about "rock", this one is absolutely required reading. If you haven't read it, you're stuck on the goddamn wrong side of the fence. Third edition (May, 2005), 529 pages, 29.95 list price.

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