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Smile if you dare : pointy hats and politics with the Pet Shop Boys, 1993-1994 / Ramzy Alwakeel.
- Title
- Smile if you dare : pointy hats and politics with the Pet Shop Boys, 1993-1994 / Ramzy Alwakeel.
- Author
- Alwakeel, Ramzy
- Publication
- London, UK : Repeater, 2016.
- New York : Distributed in the United States by Random House, Inc.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML421.P48 A48 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 118 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- "A creative analysis of the band's fifth album Very, it examines topics as diverse as technological paradise, sexual paranoia and representations of class in British pop music. As well as a keen critical edge, itis equipped with an undisguised mad love for the source material, a sense of passionate abandon induced by the tragic/ecstatic synth-pop that pours out of the speakers"--Page 4 of cover.
- Alternative Title
- Smile if you dare : politics and pointy hats with the Pet Shop Boys
- Subject
- Note
- "A Repeater Books paperback original 2016"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 106, 109-111), discography (pages 106-107), and videography (page 107).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "Can you forgive her?" : performance, sexuality and identity -- "Dreaming of the queen" and "To speak is a sin" : fear and sex -- "Young offender" and "Liberation" : technology, lust and abstraction -- "The theatre" : London -- "Go west" and "Postscript" : failed utopias and false endings.
- ISBN
- 9781910924228
- 1910924229
- 9781910924235 (canceled/invalid)
- 1910924237 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 936532685
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library