Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984Rip It Up and Start Again 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,

Rip It Up and Start Again 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, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 01/01/2006
ISBN: 9780143036722
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/16/2006 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2006 pg. 77
Library Journal 02/15/2006 pg. 118
New York Times 03/05/2006 pg. 6