Books by Jake Austen and Complete Book Reviews

Playground: Growing Up in the New York Underground
Playground: Growing Up in the New York Underground
Paul Zone. Glitterati, $50 (208p) ISBN 978-0-988-1745-5-9
Zone, who formed the 1970s glam/punk band Fast with his brothers Miki and Mandy, here offers this striking photo memoir of the decade. The book includes a winning chapter entitled “Autobiographical Text” that follows the Zone brothers from working-cl
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen. Norton, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-07098-9
Taylor (coauthor of Faking It) and Austen (editor of Roctober magazine) provide a comprehensive and perceptive history and critique of black minstrelsy—a tradition that began in the 1840s, where black performers entertained black and white audiences
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TV A-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
TV A-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
Jake Austen, Author Chicago Review Press $18.95 (369p) ISBN 978-1-55652-572-8
Long before American Idol captivated audiences, rock music was practically everywhere on TV, starting with Bo Diddley and his sexually encoded lyrics on The Ed Sullivan Show in the mid-1950s and crescendoing to MTV and VH1, which ""made"" pop-rock...
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