Publication

2008 - Penguin Group USA, Inc., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

188,000 words, Guess

Page Count

752 pages

Physical Format

EBook

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781429526647
  • ISBN-139781429526678
  • ISBN-101429526645
  • ISBN-10142952667X
  • OverDrive3A6F05DA-7E64-4F75-8F60-FE69B78EF510
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC782.42166
  • LCCML3534 .R495 2005

Description

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 anecdote and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up 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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Other Editions

  • Rip It Up and Start AgainEBookPenguin Group USA, Inc.2008

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