Freedom of choice / Evie Nagy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagy, Evie, author.

Series:

33 1/3.

33 1/3 ; 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devo (Musical group). Freedom of choice.

Devo (Musical group).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020.

Summary:

"Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second LP Duty Now for the Future, and now it was go time. Propelled by the new decade's high-tech, free-market, pre-AIDS promise, 1980's Freedom of Choice would rocket what Devo co-founder Gerald Casale calls hisalternate universe, hermetically sealed, alien band both into the arms of the Earthlings and back to their home planet in one scenic trip. Before an artistic and commercial decline that resulted in a 20-year gap between Devo's last two studio records, Freedom of Choice made them curious, insurgent superstars, vindicated but ultimately betrayed by the birth of MTV. Their only platinum album represented the best of their unreplicable code: dead-serious tricksters, embracing conformity in order to destroy it with bullet-proof pop sensibility. Through first-hand accounts from the band and musical analysis set against an examination of new wave's emergence, the first-ever authorized book about Devo with a forward by Portlandia's Fred Armisen explores the group's peak of success, when their hermetic seal cracked open to let in mainstream attention, a legion of new Devotees, and plenty of misunderstandings. Freedom of Choice was the end of Devo innocence it turned out to be the high point before the storm of a total cultural move to the right, the advent of AIDS, and the press starting to figure Devo out and think they had our number, says Casale. Where everything changes."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Girl U want

It's not right

Whip it

Snowball

Ton O' luv

Freedom of choice

Gates of steel

Cold war

Don't you know

That's pep!

Mr. B's ballroom

Planet Earth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781623566517

1623566517

9781501308734

1501308734

9781623563172

1623563178

OCLC:

1201427069