The Britpop Bible

Author : VERNON. JOYNSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899855247
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Britpop Bible written by VERNON. JOYNSON and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Blur's Popscene single in March 1992 and Suede's single The Drowners in May 1992 are widely considered to be the best early examples of the genre, the term 'Britpop' was not used until 1993. Over the next few years it developed as a hugely significant, musical, cultural and social phenomenon in the UK. This book is a timely guide to many of the significant artists and recordings of the genre and quite a few less well known ones.

Author : David Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150133171X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible written by David Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division's Closer and Nirvana's In Utero, the valedictory works of troubled young men. This book tells the dramatic story of Manic Street Preachers' masterpiece. Tracing the album's origins in the Valleys, an industrialised region of South Wales where the band spent their formative years, the author argues that The Holy Bible can be seen as a meditation on the uses and abuses of history.

Author : Vernon Joynson
Publisher : Borderline Productions
ISBN 13 : 1899855254
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discover UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop written by Vernon Joynson and published by Borderline Productions. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop is an excellent comprehensive guide to the development of both genres in the UK. It includes detailed discographies, personnel details, biographies, analysis of their music and, where applicable, rarity ratings for all the 80s and 90s acts featured. You’ll recognise some names but several less well known acts are included too. There’s also a detailed postscript section on the re-emergence of Shoegaze and Dream Pop in the UK in the 21st century and the bands involved in it. This book is the latest in a quartet of books Vernon has written about UK music commencing with the Two Volume Tapestry of Delights (2014), A Sharp Shock To The System (2019) and The Britpop Bible (2022). These three previous titles appeared in print but in view of the cost of living crisis Discover UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop has been published digitally to reduce the retail price and make it affordable for more of you. You will discover a lot about UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop from this book, which is profusely illustrated throughout. There is nothing similar out there!

Author : Rhian E. Jones
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780997078
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clampdown written by Rhian E. Jones and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? From chav-pop pantomimes to retro-chauvinist ‘landfill indie’, the bland, homogenous and compromised nature of the current 'alternative' sector reflects the interests of a similarly complacent and privileged political establishment. In particular, political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding ‘chavs’, has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. This book traces the progress of this cultural clampdown over the past twenty years. ,

Author : Mathijs Peters
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030431002
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers written by Mathijs Peters and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers. Unlike most recent work on popular music, Peters concentrates largely on lyrical content to defend the provocative claim that the Welsh band pushes the critical message shaped in their lyrics to the forefront. Their music, this suggests, along with sleeve art, body-art, video-clips, clothes, interviews and performances, serves to emphasise this critical message and the primary role played by the band’s lyrics. Blending the disciplines of popular music studies, culture studies and philosophy, Peters confronts the ideas of German philosopher and social critic Theodor W. Adorno with the entire catalogue of Manic Street Preachers, from their 1988 single ‘Suicide Alley’ to their 2018 album Resistance is Futile. Although Adorno argues that popular music is unable to resist the standardising machinery of consumption culture, Peters paradoxically uses his ideas to show that Manic Street Preachers releases shape ‘critical models’ with which to formulate social and political critique. This notion of the ‘critical model’ enables Peters to argue that the catalogue of Manic Street Preachers critically addresses a wide range of themes, from totalitarianism to Holocaust representation, postmodern temporality to Europeanism, and from Nietzsche’s ideas about self-overcoming to reflections on digimodernism and post-truth politics. The book therefore persuasively shows that Manic Street Preacher lyrics constitute an intertextual network of links between diverse cultural and political phenomena, encouraging listeners to critically reflect on the structures that shape our lives.

Author : Thomas Appleby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477130314
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE IN THE HARSH LANE written by Thomas Appleby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to make any reader, firstly laugh, then in no particular order, flinch, be jealous, feel sick, feel sorry, angry and disgusted or just plain sad. This is the original story of nobodies, but the type of people a lot of people can relate to, to some degree. Events are sometimes in random order, due to the author's sometimes random memory. The main dilemma in writing a 'warts n' all' book, is, whilst it's fine to do so if you are famous, on the other hand, when even your wife can barely remember who you are, it's a bit different! Basically, who gives a shit? But going with the old cliché 'Everyone has a book in them' here's mine. It is a book of many contrasts, wild and excessive and funny to some, but at some points it is balanced out with the tales of the complete opposite, about family, heartbreak and loss, and has some pretty morbid moments I must admit, but this is generally about the knowledge that you gain in this life, I can't say I have learned completely yet, who does? But I'm getting there, and if I don't, who really gives a toss anyway? I didn't invent Penicillin, or The Wheel, or even American Idol, I'm just a regular guy in some respects. There is a great quote out there which that wholeheartedly sums up my philosophy towards life, 'Live as if you'll die tomorrow. Dream as if you'll live forever.' There is also a historical element to some of the recollections, relating to people and places, just to try to make me look a bit more clever if possible, well I need something! As for writing about real life, as a musician formerly, I now understand when a band says you have your have the first part of your life to write your first album, it's the same with writing about real life, all your own experiences are exhausted after that. As anyone who knows me, I'm one of the worst liars in the universe, imagination I'm crap at, I do prefer real life. So I won't be forging a career in Fiction anytime soon. Anyway, it's all academic, I'll probably get banned from writing books ever again, if anybody ever reads this. Names have been changed to protect the slightly guilty, the guilty, and the really guilty, I hope I've not dropped anyone in this too much. There are certain stories which I cannot and will not write about, too sensitive for some people I know, and are frankly a bit too harsh for this book, and that's saying something.

Author : Katherine Harlow
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781566565240
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Bible written by Katherine Harlow and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering everything visitors (and residents) need to know about accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, and employment, this just may be the definitive companion for those who want to experience all that London has to offer. Area by area, and pub by pub, it's here. Photos.

Author : John Robb
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448118794
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone Roses And The Resurrection of British Pop written by John Robb and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Stone Roses have become folk heroes, frozen in time. And their story, with roots in punk through post-punk, scooter boys, skinheads, Northern Soul, psychedelia, acid house and Madchester, is everything that is great about British street culture.' Reni. Mani. Ian Brown. John Squire. Names that will forever be remembered for creating their defining album The Stone Roses and a unique but inimitable baggy style. Their phenomenal story was first documented by the man who was with them every step of the way: John Robb. And now, in this special edition of his acclaimed and intimate biography, Robb brings the ultimate rock 'n' roll tale fully up to date.

Author : Larissa Wodtke
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 191092489X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Triptych written by Larissa Wodtke and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging records of the nineties. Triptych reconsiders The Holy Bible from three separate, intersecting angles, combining the personal with the political, history with memory, and popular accessibility with intellectual attention to the album's depth and complexity.

Author : Paul Laird
Publisher : White Owl
ISBN 13 : 1399017489
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth and Impact of Britpop written by Paul Laird and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember the ninteties? Of course you do. Cool Britannia, New Labour, Blur vs Oasis, Geri Halliwell’s Union Flag dress, TFI Friday, “wasssssuuuuuuppppppp”, Opal Fruits turning into Starburst without anyone asking your permission...crazy times. This book doesn’t have anything to say about Geri’s dress or Opal Fruits but it has lots to say about Britpop. But this isn’t a book about the Britpop you think you know about, this is the story of a truly remarkable period of creativity in British guitar music told through the experiences of someone who was there from the first note of “Popscene” through to the run out groove of “This is Hardcore”. This is the story of the Britpop that didn’t make it onto the evening news or the cover of The Face. This is the story of the bands nobody remembers but that everybody should. This is the story of what it was like to be an outsider in 1991 and be too cool for school by 1994. This is the story of a magnesium flash in British popular music that has, for good or ill, defined British guitar music ever since. Here are Flamingoes and Pimlico, Strangelove and David Devant and His Spirit Wife, The Weekenders and Thurman...and Blur, Pulp, Oasis, Sleeper and Elastica too. These are Britpop memories from someone who was actually there. The definitive story of Britpop...