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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 Paperback - 2006

by Simon Reynolds

A renowned music journalist celebrates the futuristic spirit of the post-punk bands and their endless innovations to recreate the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.


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Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.

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Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.

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  • Title Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
  • Author Simon Reynolds
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, London
  • Date 2006-02-17
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143036722 / 0143036726
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Library of Congress subjects Punk rock music - History and criticism, Rock music - 1971-1980 - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005049348
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.660

Media reviews

"Shed[s] dazzling light on a neglected era of music. The definitive word on the subject." —The Times, London



"Anyone who claims to have read five better books about pop is mad, or a liar." —The Guardian, London

Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2006, Page 77
  • Library Journal, 02/15/2006, Page 118
  • New York Times, 03/05/2006, Page 6
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/16/2006, Page 50

About the author

Simon Reynolds is the author of Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, and The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n'Roll (coauthored with Joy Press). A senior contributing writer for Spin, his pop culture writings have also appeared in many other major publications.
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