In Eric Weisbard's Songbooks, a deep dive into American pop music by way of the writers, critics who have addressed it
• 2 years agoSongbooks sounds straightforward. Weisbard has gone back and reread more than 150 volumes, classics and oddities of American music writing. In chronological order, he chews through biographies, memoirs, song collections and academic studies, from William Billings’ The New-England Psalm-Singer (1770) through Jay-Z’s memoir Decoded (2010).