Rip It Up and Start Again - by Simon Reynolds (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A renowned music journalist celebrates the futuristic spirit of the post-punk bands and their endless innovations to recreate the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Rip It Up and Start Again</b> is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. 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, <b>Rip It Up and Start Again</b> re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Shed[s] dazzling light on a neglected era of music. The definitive word on the subject. --<b>The Times</b>, London<p>Anyone who claims to have read five better books about pop is mad, or a liar. --<b>The Guardian</b>, London</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Simon Reynolds is the author of <i>Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture</i>, <i>Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock</i>, and <i>The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n'Roll</i> (coauthored with Joy Press). A senior contributing writer for <i>Spin</i>, his pop culture writings have also appeared in many other major publications.
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