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Top eight : how MySpace changed music / Michael Tedder.
LIBRA ML3790 .T43 2023
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tedder, Michael, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- MySpace (Firm).
- MySpace.com.
- Music--Marketing.
- Music.
- Emo (Music)--History.
- Emo (Music).
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 375 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Top 8
- How MySpace changed music
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2023
- Summary:
- "In extensive interviews with scene pioneers and mainstays including Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Gabe Saporta (Midtown/Cobra Starship), and Max Bemis (Say Anything), veteran music journalist Michael Tedder has crafted a once-in-a-generation exploration of emo and The Scene that is as forthright as it is tenderly nostalgic, taking to task the elements of toxic masculinity and crass consumerism that bled out of the early 2000s cultural milieu and ultimately led to the implosion of emo's first home and the best social media network, MySpace. When MySpace thrived, the Internet was still fun. Top Eight recalls the excitement and freedom of the era, an unprecedented time when a generation of fans were able to connect directly with the bands and musicians they idolized, from Colbie Caillat to Lil Jon. MySpace changed everything, and Top Eight gives major voices of the era the chance to tell us why it couldn't last"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Preface: Enter the Foxhole
- Introduction: Why We Miss MySpace
- Back In The Day
- The My Generation
- The Lonely Hearts Club
- Top Eight
- Enough Space For Everyone
- Top Of The World
- Warning Signs
- Face Off
- Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault
- Indictment
- Crash Years
- Fallout
- Epilogue: Space Was The Place
- Acknowledgments
- The Who's Who of MySpace
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-375).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781641606585
- 1641606584
- OCLC:
- 1391331170
- Publisher Number:
- 99996274479
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