Departing from my Pragueblog to announce that galleys are available for Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006. Get yours today:

“It is a great thing, a luxurious thing, that our music is so fine and fierce, that it is able to go so many places and speak of so many things, and that there are people with the nimble intelligence to appreciate it in so many forums.”—Mary Gaitskill, from the Introduction

DA CAPO PRESS ANNOUNCES NEW EDITORS & SELECTIONS FOR
DA CAPO BEST MUSIC WRITING 2006
The Year’s Best Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop,
Jazz, Pop, Country, & More

This seventh edition of Da Capo Best Music Writing offers a fresh perspective and a rich array of writing by Greil Marcus, Alex Ross, Mike McGuirk, Robert Wheaton, Jon Caramanica, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Charles Michener, Ann Powers, Miss AMP, Kimberly Chun, Frank Kogan, John Biguenet, Katy St. Clair, Nick Weidenfeld, Tom Ewing, Geoffrey O’Brien, Geoff Boucher, Dave Tompkins, Kevin Whitehead, Robert Christgau, Anne Midgette, Bill Friskics-Warren, Susan Alcorn, John Sullivan, Peter Relic, Dr. David Thorpe, Raquel Cepeda, Wayne Marshall, Andrew Hultkrans, J. Edward Keyes, David Marchese, Monica Kendrick, Will Hermes, and Moustafa Bayoumi.

Da Capo Press is pleased to announce that Mary Gaitskill, the Guest Editor of the 2006 edition, joins an esteemed list of previous guest editors including Nick Hornby, Mickey Hart, Matt Groening, Peter Guralnick, Jonathan Lethem, and JT LeRoy.

Guest Editor Mary Gaitskill is a National Book Award finalist for her novel Veronica, which was also named one of the New York Times’ top five novels of the year. Her book Because They Wanted To was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 and her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. She lives in New York.

Series Editor Daphne Carr is a music journalist, critic, and scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at Columbia University. Her work appears regularly in the Associated Press, the Seattle Weekly, City Pages, Chicago Tribune, Stop Smiling, Venus Magazine, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
The Year’s Best Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More
Paperback Original ISBN: 0-306-81499-4 $15.95 November 2006

What critics have said about Da Capo Best Music Writing:

“Each page makes me want to either dance or visit a rock star’s grave.”—USA Today

“A diverse time capsule that grapples with pop music’s most engaging issues.”—Blender

“The stories behind the music can be as inspiring as the music itself…will likely inspire the reader to seek out a lot of new music.”—New York Press

“With a little something for fans of nearly every kind of popular music, this is one of the best omnibuses of incisive writing about pop music.”—Booklist

“For those with broad ears and hungry minds, Da Capo’s annual remains a treat.”—Relix

For press info, contact:
Kate Kazeniac, Publicity Manager
kate.kazeniac@perseusbooks.com