Simon Reynolds: 13 books
Post punk
1978-1984
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Il post punk non è un «genere» come tanti, non è la diligente coda del punk, a cavallo tra due decenni, quando la rivoluzione è finita e i giochi sono fatti; è, al contrario, la musica e il tempo in cui tutto diventa possibile. I confini cadono, i divieti sono ignorati, le regole vengono sovvertite...
Totally Wired
Postpunk Interviews and Overviews
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Siouxsie and the Banshees,...
Energy Flash
A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.
England, Germany,...
Shock and Awe
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
NPR Great Read of 2016
From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)—comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars,...
Bring the Noise
20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists-Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead-with...
Polvere di stelle
Il glam rock dalle origini ai giorni nostri
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Da Marc Bolan ad Alice Cooper, da Gary Glitter a Lou Reed, dai Roxy Music ai New York Dolls, da Wayne County ai Queen, dagli Ultravox ai Kraftwerk, dal Rocky Horror Picture Show a L’uomo che cadde sulla Terra, senza dimenticare un’esauriente panoramica sugli strascichi del fenomeno: Johnny Rotten,...
Rip It Up and Start Again
Postpunk 1978-1984
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
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...
Retromania
Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Generation Ecstasy
Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
Retromania
Musica, cultura pop e la nostra ossessione per il passato
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 20, 2017
È proprio vero che la musica ha smesso di evolversi? Quello che è certo è che gli anni Zero non hanno dato inizio al futuro che in campo culturale ci aspettavamo: le reunion più o meno riuscite, le cover band, il ritorno del vinile e delle musicassette hanno collaborato alla creazione di uno scenario...
Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...
by Simon Jennings, Michel Kaiser, John D. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science. These include growing concerns about the environmental impacts of fisheries, the role of ecological interactions in determining...