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Bring the Noise : 20 years of writing about hip rock and hip-hop by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music
From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this is the book that explores the links between hip-hop and rock. Reynolds has focused on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. He's identified the strange dance of white bohemian rock and black culture, how they come tog ...Show more
Energy Flash A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music
Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds' landmark rave history. "Energy Flash" has been expanded and updated to cover twenty-first-century developments like dub step and EDM's recent takeover of America. Author of the acclaimed postpunk history "Rip It U ...Show more
Futuromania - Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music Today by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way music can sti ...Show more
Retromania Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run o ...Show more
Rip it Up and Start Again - Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music | Reading Level: very good
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 Tal ...Show more
Shock and Awe by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music
As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex ...Show more
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music
A Guardian, Sunday Times, Mojo, Daily Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, ...Show more
The Sex Revolts - Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds & Joy Press
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Category: Film & Music
Iggy Pop once said of women: However close they come I'll always pull the rug from under them. That's where my music is made. For so long, rock 'n' roll has been fueled by this fear and loathing of the feminine. The first book to look at rock rebellion through the lens of gender, The Sex Revolts capture ...Show more
Totally Wired : Post-punk interviews and overviews by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music
"Totally Wired" features 32 interviews with the era's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Green Gartside, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers, record producers, deejays and journalists ...Show more
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