DJ Pioneer
01-16-2009, 10:10 AM
Paul’s Boutique: 20 Years Later, Why It Still Matters
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 4 p.m.
Maryland Hall Auditorium, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD
Free!
When The Beastie Boys released their second studio album – "Paul’s Boutique" – in 1989, it was considered a commercial and critical failure. Twenty years later, the now-double-platinum-selling album has become a cult classic and is considered one of the defining records in the development of hip-hop. This year marks the 20th anniversary of "Paul’s Boutique," to be celebrated by a reissuing of a “20th Anniversary Edition” on Jan. 27.
Renowned music author Dan LeRoy will explore the business and artistic risks taken by the Beastie Boys to record this album, as well as looking at the record’s context in music history and as a “lost relic of a shared culture.”
Dan LeRoy is the director of the Literary Arts Department at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, Pa. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Vibe, The Village Voice, National Review Online and Alternative Press.
Mr. LeRoy is the co-author (with Michael Lipton) of "20 Years of Mountain Stage," a history of the National Public Radio show, and wrote a book for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. His book "The Greatest Music Never Sold" was published by Backbeat in autumn 2007. Mr. LeRoy is also a contributor to "But Prince Don’t Moonwalk", an anthology of music writing published in 2008 by Crown/Random House.
This lecture is a companion to the 2009 Intersession course “Paul’s Boutique – Twenty Years Later, Why It Still Matters,” taught by Lane Harder, and is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Office of Summer and Intersession Programs.
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 4 p.m.
Maryland Hall Auditorium, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD
Free!
When The Beastie Boys released their second studio album – "Paul’s Boutique" – in 1989, it was considered a commercial and critical failure. Twenty years later, the now-double-platinum-selling album has become a cult classic and is considered one of the defining records in the development of hip-hop. This year marks the 20th anniversary of "Paul’s Boutique," to be celebrated by a reissuing of a “20th Anniversary Edition” on Jan. 27.
Renowned music author Dan LeRoy will explore the business and artistic risks taken by the Beastie Boys to record this album, as well as looking at the record’s context in music history and as a “lost relic of a shared culture.”
Dan LeRoy is the director of the Literary Arts Department at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland, Pa. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Vibe, The Village Voice, National Review Online and Alternative Press.
Mr. LeRoy is the co-author (with Michael Lipton) of "20 Years of Mountain Stage," a history of the National Public Radio show, and wrote a book for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. His book "The Greatest Music Never Sold" was published by Backbeat in autumn 2007. Mr. LeRoy is also a contributor to "But Prince Don’t Moonwalk", an anthology of music writing published in 2008 by Crown/Random House.
This lecture is a companion to the 2009 Intersession course “Paul’s Boutique – Twenty Years Later, Why It Still Matters,” taught by Lane Harder, and is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Office of Summer and Intersession Programs.