"With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Sio…
"Joy Devotion: The Importance of Ian Curtis and fan culture explores the lasting legacy in the fan, post-punk and dot.com economy of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, and what such dedication says about the larger issues facing us in a modern world. Essays on Curtis, explorin…
"Joy Devotion: The Importance of Ian Curtis and fan culture explores the lasting legacy in the fan, post-punk and dot.com economy of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, and what such dedication says about the larger issues facing us in a modern world. Essays on Curtis, explorin…
"A Kiss across the Ocean examines an array of interactions and exchanges between British musicians catalyzed by the early punk movement and Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Spotlighting a host of influential performers like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, …
"A Kiss across the Ocean examines an array of interactions and exchanges between British musicians catalyzed by the early punk movement and Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Spotlighting a host of influential performers like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, …
"A Kiss across the Ocean examines an array of interactions and exchanges between British musicians catalyzed by the early punk movement and Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Spotlighting a host of influential performers like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, …
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.
This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of critical mass, social networks and music worlds, and using sophisticated techniques of social network analysis, it teases out th…
Based on up-to-date original research, Heart And Soul brings together established and newly emerging scholars who provide detailed examinations the many layers of this multi-faceted and influential band and their singer, the late Ian Curtis, in particular.
"By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater …
"By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater …
