Volume 30, Number 12 · July 21, 1983
Blue Suede Views
By Robert Craft
All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century
by John Rockwell
Knopf, 286 pp., $15.95
John Rockwell's survey of the careers of twenty heterogeneous musicians in the United States from the 1950s to the present—not in 'the late twentieth century' of the subtitle, obviously—reveals far more about the state of music reviewing in this country (Mr. Rockwell is a staff writer who covers both 'classical' and 'pop' for The New York Times) than about music. Publicity and promotion are Mr. Rockwell's fortes, not music criticism. To put it bluntly, All American Music reveals its author to be an amateur who does not understand music at a professional, technical level.
Review, 2221 words
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