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² Weisbard, Eric, [Guns and Roses’] Use your illusion I and II, 33 1/3 (New York: Continuum, 2006)Google Scholar. See also Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014)Google Scholar.

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⁴ Weisbard does, in fact, tip his hat toward Robert Christgau's Book Reports, identifying it as a partial prototype. Christgau, Robert, Book Reports: A Music Critic On His First Love, Which Was Reading (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019)Google Scholar.