Book Tear It Up And Start Again - Simon Reynolds
About The Residents or Birthday Party.The book explores the wildly adventurous music created after punk. Throughout the book, the theme of continuity with the punk explosion to point that punk had died, story runs smoothly. And doesn't all this not matter after all? It's up to you whether you hold in your hand a book charting the history of post-punk, or rather the “new wave”
Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futuristic spirit of Joy Division , Gang of Four, Talking Heads or Devo and other bands that resulted in endless innovation in music, lyrics, performance and style, and continued through the early 1980s with videos - such as the subtle synth pop of Human League, Depeche Mode and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Soon, however, we encountered two significant points. The idea of “New Wave” men as handsome young men with long heels and eye shadows, looking important behind their synths (admittedly, we find a few of them in the second part of the book), has become much more popular. The book explores the wildly adventurous music created after punk. It's up to you whether you hold in your hand a book charting the history of post-punk, or rather the “new wave”.Czech languagedimensions: 161 x 235 x 40mmbook binding: hardcover with book jacket552 pages year of publication: 2021 At one point, we considered replacing the term post punk with the term “new wave”, which is more familiar to Czechs. It's true that in our country the term was used for a long time, and the term post punk took hold later than elsewhere. Residents or Birthday Party. And doesn't all this not matter after all? But it's not so much about the legacy of punk as a musical style, more important is the ethos it established, the attempt to break out of the trap of the established music business with a DIY approach - musically it was more about where to go next after punk died out. Secondly, it is common to talk about post-punk revival - hardly anyone would use the term “new wave” revival. Throughout the book, the theme of continuity with the punk explosion to point that punk had died, story runs smoothly. First of all, we can hardly label industrial bands as “new wave” or e.g. And what about the New York bands that used the term “no wave” to directly oppose “new wave”?
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