When the editors of Continuum's 33 1/3 book series rejected Toronto
music critic Carl Wilson's initial pitch to write a book on Pere
Ubu's Dub Housing, they asked him to come up with a "less obscure"
album. Wilson upped the ante considerably and chose one of the top
selling albums of all time - Céline Dion's Let's Talk About Love.
For Wilson, it was a chance to boldly examine his own taste and the
socio-economic divisions that music fandom is built on. We cultural
studies fiends may be drooling, and it will be really fun to see
what insecure hipsters and actual Dion fans make of the book when
it's released at the end of this year.
I've only read an advance excerpt (It's not out until December) but
it looks like it could be the book of the series.
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