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Sweet dreams : from club culture to style culture, the story of the New Romantics / Dylan Jones.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML285.5 .J66 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Dylan, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Great Britain--1971-1980--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 680 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Sweet dreams : the story of the New Romantics
- From club culture to style culture
- Story of the New Romantics
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2020.
- Summary:
- David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics... -- 'Who better to tell the story of the super-stylish New Romantic movement than GQ editor Jones, who lived through it?' i News, 75 Best New Books for Autumn 'Jones has finally produced the tribute that one of Britain's most culturally rich periods truly deserves.' Classic Pop ***** -- One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era of the New Romantics grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. The scene had a huge influence on the growth of print and broadcast media, and was arguably one of the most bohemian environments of the late twentieth century. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonised by British pop music - making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles. In Sweet Dreams, Dylan Jones charts the rise of the New Romantics through testimony from the people who lived it. For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1975 Fed Up with Fandango
- 1976 Fireworks
- 1977 England's Screaming
- 1978 Transition
- 1979 The Blitz
- 1980 The Charms, Such as They Were
- 1981 Video Killed the Radio Star
- 1982 Wake Me Up Before You Whiskey-A-Go-Go
- 1983 The Cradle of Choruses
- 1984 The Pleasuredome
- 1985 Like Punk Never Happened.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 661-662), discography (pages 639-656), and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780571353439
- 0571353436
- OCLC:
- 1200044154
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