Research Catalog

Title

Rip it up and start again : post-punk 1978-84 / Simon Reynolds.

Author

Reynolds, Simon, 1963-

Publication

London : Faber, 2005.

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Description

xxx, 577 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

Despite having rejuvenated rock, by the summer of 1977 punk had become a parody of itself. This book looks at what happened next, with the emergence of post-punk bands such as PiL, Joy Division, Talking Heads, The Fall and The Human League -- Global books in print.

Alternative Title

• Post-punk 1978-84
• Postpunk 1978-1984

Subject

• Associates (Musical group)
• Devo (Musical group)
• Fall (Musical group)
• Gang of Four (Musical group)
• Joy Division (Musical group)
• Magazine (Musical group)
• Public Image Ltd. (Musical group)
• Punk rock music > History and criticism
• Père Ubu (Musical group)
• Rock music > 1971-1980 > History and criticism
• Rock music > 1981-1990 > History and criticism
• Scritti Politti (Musical group)
• Talking Heads (Musical group)
• Throbbing Gristle (Musical group)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "PIL, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Throbbing Gristle, Scritti Politti, Gang of Four, Devo, Magazine, Pere Ubu, The Fall, The Associates"--Cover, p. [4]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-543) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue : the unfinished revolution -- Pt. 1. Postpunk -- 1. Public image belongs to me : John Lydon and PiL -- 2. Autonomy in the U.K. : DIY and the British independent-label movement -- 3. Tribal revival : the pop group and the Slits -- 4. Militant entertainment : Gang of Four, the Mekons, and the Leeds scene -- 5. Uncontrollable urge : the industrial grotesquerie of Pere Ubu and Devo -- 6. Living for the future : cabaret Voltaire, the Human League, and the Sheffield scene -- 7. Just step sideways : the Fall, Joy Division, and the Manchester scene -- 8. Industrial devolution : Throbbing Gristle's music from the Death Factory -- 9. Contort yourself : no wave New York -- 10. Art attack : Talking Heads, Wire, and Mission of Burma -- 11. Messthetics : the London Vanguard -- 12. Freak scene : cabaret Noir and theater of cruelty in postpunk San Francisco -- 13. Careering : PiL and postpunk's peak and fall -- Pt. 2. New pop and new rock -- 14. Ghost dance : 2-tone and the ska resurrection -- 15. Sex gang children : Malcolm McLaren, the pied piper of pantomime pop -- 16. Mutant disco and punk funk : crosstown traffic in early eighties New York (and beyond) -- 17. Fun 'n' frenzy : postcard records and the sound of young Scotland -- 18. Electric dreams : synthpop -- 19. Play to win : the pioneers of new pop -- 20. New gold dreams 81-82-83-84 : new pop's peak, the second British invasion of America, and the rise of MTV -- 21. Dark things and glory boys : the return of rock with goth and the new psychedelia -- 22. Raiding the twentieth century : ZTT, the Art of Noise, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

ISBN

• 9780571215690 (pbk.)
• 0571215696 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library