Bring the Noise - 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop

Informationen zum Autor Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984 and, most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock. Klappentext 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 together at various points and then go their own way. Through interviews he has carried out as a top music journalist for the last twenty years Reynolds is here able to tell a story of musical rivalry which no-one has told before. The approach is similar to Rip It Up and Start Again : a cultural history told through the music we love and the stars and movements that have shaped the world we live in. Bring the Noise by Simon Reynolds features writing on rock and hip-hop, and the creative tensions between the two, from the best-selling author of Rip It Up and Start Again. Zusammenfassung From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this book explores the links between hip-hop and rock. It focuses on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. It identifies the strange dance of white bohemian rock and black culture, how they come together at various points and then go their own way.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Reynolds, Reynolds Simon
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2007
• EAN: 9780571232079
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23207-9
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Hip-Hop, Rock, Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Rap and Hip Hop, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Social and cultural history, Pop Music, Popular Music