Gene Sculatti

{{short description|American music journalist (born 1947)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Gene Sculatti | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Eugene Paul Sculatti | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|1|30}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Eugene Paul Sculatti, Born 01/30/1947 in California |url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/eugene_paul_sculatti_born_1947_3518473 |publisher=CaliforniaBirthIndex.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wimpolestreetwriters.com/gazetteblog/2016/3/10/the-mage |title=THE MAJESTIC WEST SCROLLGene Sculatti — Wimpole Street Writers |website=Wimpolestreetwriters.com |date= |accessdate=July 7, 2017}}</ref> | birth_place = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S. | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = [[Music journalist]] | language = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre =  | subject =  | movement = | notableworks =  | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = }}

'''Eugene Paul Sculatti''' (born January 30, 1947) is an American [[music journalist]] who compiled and edited the book ''The Catalog of Cool'' (1982).<ref name="Henderson2010">{{cite book|last=Henderson|first=Richard|title=Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPCRLeijKh8C&pg=PT6|year=2010|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4411-4315-0|page=6}}</ref><ref name="Frank1997">{{cite book|last=Frank|first=Thomas C.|title=Baffler: The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w7r3Rl7ttVAC|year=1997|publisher=Baffler|isbn=978-1-888984-09-5|page=194}}</ref> In 1966, he became the first journalist to write about the [[San Francisco Sound|nascent San Francisco music scene]] in a national magazine (''[[Crawdaddy!]]'').<ref>{{cite web|title=Gene Sculatti|url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/gene-sculatti|website=[[Rock's Backpages]]|date=n.d.}}</ref> He is formerly an editorial director for [[Warner Bros. Records]] and the magazine ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fenterstock|first1=Alison|title=Dr. John's '60s, '70s Atlantic singles collected in new compilation, due out Sept. 18|url=http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/07/dr_johns_60s_70s_atlantic_sing.html|website=Nola.com|date=July 22, 2015}}</ref> He has also written for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[Creem]]'', and ''[[Radio & Records]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=O'Rourke|first1=Sally|title=BOOK: Gene Sculatti, 'Tryin' to Tell a Stranger 'Bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings, 1966-2016'|url=http://www.rebeatmag.com/book-gene-sculatti-tryin-to-tell-a-stranger-bout-rock-and-roll-selected-writings-1966-2016/|website=Rebeat|date=November 10, 2016}}</ref>

Sculatti is also a folk artist whose Cityscape series of hand-drawn scrolls has been featured in the UK's Raw Vision,<ref>{{Cite web |title=GENE SCULATTI |url=https://rawvision.com/blogs/articles/gene-sculatti |access-date=2025-10-30 |website=RAW VISION |language=en}}</ref> an international journal of [[Outsider art|Outsider Art]].

== Bibliography ==

* 1982 ''The Catalog of Cool''. New York. Warner Books. {{ISBN|978-0-446-37515-3}} * 1984 ''Popcorn: America's Amazing Obsession''. New York. Long Shadow Books / Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|978-0-671-49682-1}} * 1985 ''San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip 1965-1968''. New York. St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|978-0-312-69903-1}} * 1993 ''Too Cool''. New York. St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|978-0-312-69903-1}} * 2004 ''Best Selling Albums of the 60s.'' London. Barnes & Noble / Amber Books. {{ISBN|978-1-906842-04-8}} * 2012 ''Dark Stars & Anti-Matter: 40 Years of Loving, Leaving and Making Up with the Music of the Grateful Dead.'' Rhino. ASIN: B008A8NX2G * 2016 ''Tryin' to Tell a Stranger 'bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings 1966-2016''. {{ISBN|978-1-5354-8382-7}} * 2021 ''For the Records: Close Encounters with Popular Music.''

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