End-Of-The-Century Party - Youth, Pop and the Rise of Madchester

Informationen zum Autor Steve Redhead was Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University, Australia. He was a founding director of the Manchester Institute of Popular Culture. His numerous publications include Repetitive Beat Generation (2000), We Have Never Been Postmodern (2011) and Trump Studies (2018). Klappentext This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs, record company bosses, musicians, producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content, socially conscious lyrics and a new authenticity. Zusammenfassung This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs! record company bosses! musicians! producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content! socially conscious lyrics and a new authenticity. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Memories of the future - prologue by Tara BrabazonFrom my generation to regeneration: a 'post'-script1 Counter-cultures: the cultural politics of pop2 It all comes round again? post-subcultural pop3 Soundtracks from the global hypermarket: post-pop politics4 One nation under a hoof: whatever happened to the new bohemia?5 Don't go back to rockville: post-political popThe absolute non-end

Product details

• Authors: Steve Redhead
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781526142757
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4275-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Pop Music, Music: styles and genres, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989