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 o...
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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And it's true that a high proportion of post-punk musicians had art-school backgrounds. The No Wave scene in New York, for instance, was virtually wall-to-wall painters, film-makers, poets and performance artists. Gang of Four, Cabaret Voltaire, Devo, Wire, The Raincoats, DAF... these are just handful of bands started by fine art or design graduates. Especially in Britain, art schools have long functioned as a state-subsidized bohemia, where working-class kids too unruly for a life of labour mingle with slumming middle-class kids too wayward for a career in mid-management. After graduation, many turn to pop music as a way to sustain the 'experimental lifestyle' they'd enjoyed at college, while maybe, just maybe, make a living. (查看原文)
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