LISTEN TO THE AUTHOR ON WFMU'S "MUSIC TO SPAZZ BY"(Archived Show, First Broadcast 1/26/06)
READ THE INTRODUCTION ONLINE:
- TV-A-Go-Go Introduction (Adobe Acrobat File)
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LISTEN TO THE AUTHOR ON WFMU'S "MUSIC TO SPAZZ BY"(Archived Show, First Broadcast 1/26/06) READ THE INTRODUCTION ONLINE:
PURCHASE: |
"Amazingly detailed look at rock music on TV" - New York Post
"With essays on topics such as the idiot box's dismal relationship with punk and the history of black music on TV, this serves as an authoritative guide to televised music." - Blender
"TV-a-go-go not only becomes the best book I've ever read on TV and rock & roll, but deserves shelf space next to other smart, fan-spurred music histories such as Sweet Soul Music and Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. It is a remarkable book." - Terminal-Boredom.com
"Charting the relationship of the devil's music and the boob tube from "The Ed Sullivan Show" through the current plethora of of thoroughly phony "reality TV" shows (this) book is not only informative, but a heck of a lot of fun, overflowing with delightfully strange stories and fascinatingly weird detours, and obsessed with the question of how our most authentic and immediate art form changes - and is sometimes changed by - our most "fake" and scripted medium." - Jim Derogatis, Chicago Sun Times
"Nobody understands rock's tangled relationship with TV better than Jake Austen." - Chicago Tribune