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Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (Faber Greatest Hits)

Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (Faber Greatest Hits)

by SimonReynolds (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

    $11.23
Synopsis

In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 608
 Edition: Main - Faber Greatest Hits
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 0571349676
ISBN 13: 9780571349678
Book Overview: A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Author Bio
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, and most recently, Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and its Legacy from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century.