1989 : Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About
By: Clover, Joshua (Author).
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton. Published: 16/11/2009. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as 'the end of history.' Amidst all the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, pop music also experienced striking changes that year. Vividly conjuring cultural sensations and events, Clover tracks the emergence of seemingly disconnected phenomena - from grunge to acid house to gangsta rap - asking if 'perhaps pop had been biding its time until 1989 came along to make sense of its sensibility.' His analysis deftly moves among varied artists and genres including Public Enemy, NWA, Dr. Dre, De La Soul, The KLF, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, U2, Jesus Jones, Scorpions, George Michael, Madonna, Roxette, and others. This elegantly written work, deliberately mirroring history as dialectical and ongoing, summons forth a new understanding of how 'history had come out to meet pop as something more than a fairytale, or something less. A truth, a way of being.' Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0520252551/9780520252554
TITLE: 1989
CONTRIBUTORS: Clover, Joshua (Author)
IMPRINT: University of California Press
PUBLISHER: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 16/11/2009
SUBJECT: Education / Reference, Music, Interdisciplinary Studies, Rap & Hiphop
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 159mm x 235mm
PAGES: 204
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
CONTENTS: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION: The Long 1989 PART ONE: 1989 (THE UNCONFINED UNRECKONED YEAR) 1. The Bourgeois and the Boulevard BRIDGE: da inner sound, y'all 2. The Second Summer of Love BRIDGE: I Was up above It 3. Negative Creep BRIDGE: Just a Stop down the Line 4. The Billboard Consensus PART TWO: "1989" (A SHOUT IN THE STREET) 5. The Image-Event and the Blind Spot EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX
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