David Yaffe (music critic)

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David Yaffe (born January 1, 1973) is an American academic, who grew up in

His third book, Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (FSG, 2017), was the winner of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, and a Washington Post Notable Book of the year, 2017. It has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Danish, and German. It has been optioned for a scripted series with Sony Entertainment.

Among other media appearances, including PBS NewsHour, in December 2018 Yaffe appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music, discussing the Joni Mitchell song "River".^[2]

Works

• Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing,
  ISBN 0691123578
• Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown,
  ISBN 978-0-300-12457-6
• Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell,
  ISBN 9780374248130

External links

• Faculty website with list of publications.
• Home website

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