I’ve decided that each week I’ll keep a list of the best/most amusing/interesting titles that come across my desk at the Music Library. On Fridays, I’ll report back so we can all bask in their gloriousness! Here are the three winners for this week:
The “I Want to Read this Book” award
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon. This book contains criticism and discussion of the music featured in Joss Whedon’s most popular works. The chapter on Dr. Horrible is called “The Status is Not Quo: Gender and Performance in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog.” How fantastic does this book sound?! I can’t wait to read it once it becomes available.
They Titled it What?!
The Secret Life of Musical Notation: Defying Interpretive Traditions. I’m sorry, but I can’t read this title without thinking of that ridiculous show on ABC Family, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” I never realized that musical notation had a secret life – shame on me for relegating it to such little importance!
Trying to be Trendy
Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology. In case you were wondering what they meant when they combined two words in the title, they added the explanatory subtitle. You know, just to be sure you understood.
When you check out the Joss Whedon book, can you re-aloud to me from its pages over skype?? Please, and thank you. :-)
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