David Haven Blake Biography David Haven Blake teaches at the College of New Jersey and is the author of Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity, forthcoming from Yale. See Work ESSAYS / Spring 2005 Reading Whitman, Growing Up Rock ‘n’ Roll By David Haven Blake With the exception of television, no cultural influence in the last forty years has been as powerful and pervasive as popular music. Across a startling range of forms and styles—heavy metal, hip-hop, emo, rhythm and blues, glam, jam, grunge...
