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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 - Simon Reynolds
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
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Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless... show more
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780143036722 (0143036726)
ASIN: 0143036726
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
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4.0 Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
On the whole, this is an interesting and informative book with lots of information about an era of music that was, until the recent new new wave/post post punk revival, quite neglected. It may indeed be the definitive account (or not) but it sure as hell isn't complete. There are a couple big prob...
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