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iaredatsun
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jazzblaster19 wrote:I've also only found one thing on the VU done by a scholar.
I dont want to keep going about the book but Richard Witts who wrote The Velvet Underground is a lecturer in music at Goldsmiths. I'm sure his book is some version of a thesis. It doesn't start with an abstract but it certainly has pages of notes and all sources referenced with bibliography and reads like a structured and serious attempt to place the VU in a socio-art-historical context.

Also on of the articles in Companion is a musicological analysis of Sister Ray. It's by Jeff Schwatz.
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Re: need help finding good VU books and essays

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iaredatsun wrote:
jazzblaster19 wrote:I've also only found one thing on the VU done by a scholar.
Also on of the articles in Companion is a musicological analysis of Sister Ray. It's by Jeff Schwatz.
That was the one I was talking about. And I'll have to check out the Witt book.
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