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"The Rock Snob's Dictionary".'Perhaps your music-obsessed friends constantly use the word "seminal" in reference to bands you've never heard of. Or maybe you are music-obsessed, and your friends' eyes glaze over every time you start in on the under-appreciated genius of Jobriath or the trenchant imagery of Hipgnosis. ...
'Either way, "The Rock Snob's Dictionary" (Broadway Books) is here to help. Once a short feature in Vanity Fair's annual music issue, authors David Kamp and Steven Daly have expanded the idea into a funny and useful book.
'Useful because rock snobs and poor, undereducated music neophytes now have a way to communicate with minimal eye-rolling and disbelieving tongue clicks.'