TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reynolds,Simon
TI  - Rip it up and start again : postpunk 1978-1984
SN  - 0143036726
AV  - ML3534 .R492 2006
U1  - 781.66/09047 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Rock music
KW  - 1971-1980
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 1981-1990
KW  - Punk rock music
N1  - Includes index; Prologue : the unfinished revolution --; Pt. 1; Postpunk --; 1; Public Image belongs to me : John Lydon and PiL --; 2; Autonomy in the U.K. : DIY and the British independent-label movement --; 3; Tribal revival : the pop group and the Slits --; 4; Militant entertainment : Gang of Four, the Mekons, and the Leeds scene --; 5; Uncontrollable urge : the industrial grotesquerie of Pere Ubu and Devo --; 6; Living for the future : cabaret Voltaire, the Human League, and the Sheffield scene --; 7; Just step sideways : the Fall, Joy Division, and the Manchester scene --; 8; Industrial devolution : Throbbing Gristle's music from the Death Factory --; 9; Contort yourself : no wave New York --; 10; Art attack : Talking Heads, Wire, and Mission of Burma --; 11; Messthetics : the London Vanguard --; 12; Freak scene : cabaret Noir and theater of cruelty in postpunk San Francisco --; 13; Careering : PiL and postpunk's peak and fall --; Pt. 2; New pop and new rock --; 14; Ghost dance : 2-tone and the ska resurrection --; 15; Sex gang children : Malcolm McLaren, the pied piper of pantomime pop --; 16; Mutant disco and punk funk : crosstown traffic in early eighties New York (and beyond) --; 17; Fun 'n' frenzy : postcard records and the sound of young Scotland --; 18; Electric dreams : synthpop --; 19; Play to win : the pioneers of new pop --; 20; New gold dreams 81-82-83-84 : new pop's peak, the second British invasion of America, and the rise of MTV --; 21; Dark things and glory boys : the return of rock with goth and the new psychedelia --; 22; Raiding the twentieth century : ZTT, the Art of Noise, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood
N2  - "Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous and wonderfully strange music created in the years after punk. 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 synthpop 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 and maverick 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."--BOOK JACKET
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