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Is it Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967–2002. By Robert Christgau. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 444 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0022-8 - Book Reports: a Music Critic on his First Love, which was Reading. By Robert Christgau. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 398 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0030-3‡

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Is it Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967–2002. By Robert Christgau. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 444 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0022-8
Book Reports: a Music Critic on his First Love, which was Reading. By Robert Christgau. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 398 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0030-3‡

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2020

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Popular Music , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , May 2020 , pp. 384 - 389
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