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Feb 17, 2006 | ISBN 9780143036722 Buy
Feb 17, 2006 | ISBN 9781101201053 Buy
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Feb 17, 2006 | ISBN 9780143036722
Feb 17, 2006 | ISBN 9781101201053
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.
Simon Reynolds is the author of Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, and The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock ’n’Roll (coauthored with Joy Press). A senior contributing writer for… More about Simon Reynolds
“Shed[s] dazzling light on a neglected era of music. The definitive word on the subject.” —The Times, London
“Anyone who claims to have read five better books about pop is mad, or a liar.” —The Guardian, London
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