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The Rock Snob's Dictionary (Paperback)

By: David Kamp (Author), Steven Daly (Author) and Ross MacDonald (Illustrator)

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"[A] note-perfect lexicon of the names, recordings, places, and ephemera treasured by those who lord 'their encyclopedic musical knowledge over others.'....Kamp and Daley's book equips readers with a sufficient arsenal to make it through the latest issue of Mojo magazine or a thick set of liner notes on a Rhino Records reissue."

Publisher's note

We’ve all been there–trapped in a conversation with smarty-pants music fiends who natter on about “the MC5” or “Eno” or “the Hammond B3,” not wanting to let on that we haven’t the slightest idea what they’re talking about. Well, fret no more! The Rock Snob*s Dictionary is here to define every single sacred totem of rock fandom’s know-it-all fraternity, from Alt.country to Zimmy. (That’s what Rock Snobs call Bob Dylan, by the way.)

The Rock Snob*s Dictionary is the brainchild of Vanity Fair writers David Kamp and Steven Daly, who originally devised it as a short feature in the magazine’s music issue. The response was so great (and grateful) that the feature became a running series, and now it’s been expanded into a book that features new material and indispensable supplements, such as the “Guide to Snob Nomenclature” (e.g., the Velvet Underground’s drummer is to be referred to as Mo Tucker, never Maureen).  Ross MacDonald’s clever illustrations offer further elucidation, so even novice Snobs will be able to identify a Neumann U47 microphone or the hirsute face of the ubiquitous session guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter.

The Rock Snob*s Dictionary is as funny as it is informative, for it does something that no previous rock reference has dared to do: not take rock fandom so darned seriously. Whether you laughed at Jack Black’s overamped characters in School of Rock or sheepishly recognized yourself in High Fidelity, you’ll treasure this book.

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Who or what is Eno? Is a Leslie a derogatory slang term, or a rather unwieldy piece of organ amplification equipment? How do you pronounce the word "flange"? All of the preceding is fully explained in the pedantry-pricking ROCK SNOB'S DICTIONARY, a combination of cheat sheet and decoder ring for the rock-musically challenged. The DICTIONARY is a reliable guide for the wary traveler forced to deal with the scattered yet savage tribes of rock music nit-pickers who infest the record stores, clubs, bars, and parties of the nation. You will learn the significance of favored rock snob adjectives like "coruscating," "plangent," and "seminal," and will no longer embarrassingly confuse Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt with either Bruce Springsteen guitar player and SOPRANOS regular Miami Steve Van Zandt or Ronnie Van Zant, the late Lynyrd Skynyrd singer. In addition to wittily skewering cultural pretensions, the DICTIONARY provides useful basic music-related information (along the way supplying a few head-scratching terms of its own, like "soulful RHODA-rock"), as well as incorporating handy nuggets of rock trivia designed to bolster your own hipster credibility.

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