Rip It Up and Start Again

Rip It Up and Start Again
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9781101201053
ISBN-13 : 1101201053
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Book Synopsis Rip It Up and Start Again by : Simon Reynolds

Download or read book Rip It Up and Start Again written by Simon Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark history of post-punk, the basis of the documentary film directed by Nikolaos Katranis 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.


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