Richard Goldstein (writer, born 1944)
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Richard Goldstein (born June 19, 1944) is an American journalist and writer. He wrote for The Village Voice from June 1966 until 2004, eventually becoming executive editor.[1][2] He specializes in gay and lesbian issues, music, and counterculture topics.[2][3]
Works[edit]
- 1 in 7: Drugs on Campus (1966)
- Words, words, words on Pop censorship (1966)
- Richard Goldstein's The Poetry of Rock (1969)[4]
- US #1: A Paperback Magazine (1969)
- US #2: Back to School Issue (1969)
- US #3: The Roots of Underground Culture (1970)
- Goldstein's Greatest Hits: A book mostly about rock 'n' roll (1970)
- Reporting the Counterculture (Media and Popular Culture: 5) (1989)
- South Bronx Hall of Fame: Sculpture by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres (1992), with Michael Ventura
- Born on the Street Graffiti
- The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right (2002)
- Homocons: The Rise of the Gay Right (2003)
- Another little piece of my heart: my life of rock and revolution in the '60s (2016)
See also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ The New York Times, August 2004
- ^ a b "Washington Journal : Newspaper Roundtable (video)". c-span.org. C-Span. June 23, 1997.
- ^ "Impact of 1993 Gay Rights March : National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association (video)". c-span.org. C-Span. Retrieved April 25, 2003.
- ^ Lydon, Michael (April 19, 1969). "Books". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.
Further reading[edit]
- Lindberg, Ulf (2005). Rock Criticism from the Beginning: Amusers, Bruisers, and Cool-Headed Cruisers. Peter Lang. pp. 114–117. ISBN 0-8204-7490-8.
- Devon Powers, Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
External links[edit]
Categories:
- 1944 births
- Living people
- American male journalists
- American music journalists
- American male non-fiction writers
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
- American gay writers
- LGBT people from New York (state)
- Gay Jews
- The Village Voice people
- Jewish American journalists
- Jewish American non-fiction writers
- Journalists from New York City
- 21st-century American Jews