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Rip it up and start again : postpunk, 1978-1984
Reynolds, Simon
Adult Nonfiction 781.6609 R 2006
Reynolds, Simon
Adult Nonfiction 781.6609 R 2006
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| Contents | Page |
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| Introduction | p. IX |
| Prologue: The Unfinished Revolution | p. 1 |
| Part 1 - Postpunk | p. 13 |
| 1 - Public Image Belongs to Me: John Lydon and PiL | p. 15 |
| 2 - Autonomy in the U.K.: DIY and the British Independent-Label Movement | p. 26 |
| 3 - Tribal Revival: The Pop Group and the Slits | p. 41 |
| 4 - Militant Entertainment: Gang of Four, the Mekons, and the Leeds Scene | p. 54 |
| 5 - Uncontrollable Urge: The Industrial Grotesquerie of Pere Ubu and Devo | p. 70 |
| 6 - Living for the Future: Cabaret Voltaire, the Human League, and the Sheffield Scene | p. 85 |
| 7 - Just Step Sideways: The Fall, Joy Division, and the Manchester Scene | p. 103 |
| 8 - Industrial Devolution: Throbbing Gristle's Music from the Death Factory | p. 124 |
| 9 - Contort Yourself: No Wave New York | p. 139 |
| 10 - Art Attack: Talking Heads, Wire, and Mission of Burma | p. 158 |
| 11 - Messthetics: The London Vanguard | p. 180 |
| 12 - Freak Scene: Cabaret Noir and Theater of Cruelty in Postpunk San Francisco | p. 197 |
| 13 - Careering: PiL and Postpunk's Peak and Fall | p. 212 |
| Part 2 - New Pop and New Rock | p. 225 |
| 14 - Ghost Dance: 2-Tone and the Ska Resurrection | p. 227 |
| 15 - Sex Gang Children: Malcolm McLaren, the Pied Piper of Pantomime Pop | p. 246 |
| 16 - Mutant Disco and Punk Funk: Crosstown Traffic in Early Eighties New York (and Beyond) | p. 261 |
| 17 - Fun 'n' Frenzy: Postcard Records and the Sound of Young Scotland | p. 280 |
| 18 - Electric Dreams: Synthpop | p. 296 |
| 19 - Play to Win: The Pioneers of New Pop | p. 315 |
| 20 - New Gold Dreams 81-82-83-84: New Pop's Peak, the Second British Invasion of America, and the Rise of MTV | p. 332 |
| 21 - Dark Things and Glory Boys: The Return of Rock with Goth and the New Psychedelia | p. 352 |
| 22 - Raiding the Twentieth Century: ZTT, the Art of Noise, and Frakie Goes to Hollywood | p. 370 |
| Afterword | p. 389 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 400 |
| Index | p. 403 |
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