Jones Dylan (Editor)
Jones Dylan (Editor) - Sweet Dreams From Club Culture To Style Culture The Story Of The New Romantics - Paperback
Jones Dylan (Editor) - Sweet Dreams From Club Culture To Style Culture The Story Of The New Romantics - Paperback
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Description: * Includes an exclusive new chapter* Excellent Guardian Hugely enjoyable Irish Times Dazzling LRB Fascinating New Statesman An absolute must - read GQ An NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020 For a while Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it comes Dylan Jones masterful history of the Blitz kids synth - pop and the style press from 1975 to 1985. Few music scenes have received more opprobrium than the New Romantics. A bunch of fame - grabbing clothes - horses? Certainly. But also a progressive force that opened new routes for music while embracing most genders ethnicities and sexual preferences. MOJO Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realising its significance or contemplating its legacy. Simon Armitage Dylan Jones explains how a bunch of penniless nightclub show - offs morphed into pop royalty in the 1980s An excitable patchwork of interviews punctuated with gossip and pertinent theory. Uncut It's all here: the swishing the androgynous preening the sweetly - dreamt synth - pop splendour of early 80s Britain. Something was happening and Mr. Jones knew what it was. Barney Hoskyns
Title: Sweet Dreams From Club Culture To Style Culture The Story Of The New Romantics
Author(s): Jones Dylan (Editor)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571353446
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 12/14/2021
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
Description: * Includes an exclusive new chapter* Excellent Guardian Hugely enjoyable Irish Times Dazzling LRB Fascinating New Statesman An absolute must - read GQ An NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020 For a while Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it comes Dylan Jones masterful history of the Blitz kids synth - pop and the style press from 1975 to 1985. Few music scenes have received more opprobrium than the New Romantics. A bunch of fame - grabbing clothes - horses? Certainly. But also a progressive force that opened new routes for music while embracing most genders ethnicities and sexual preferences. MOJO Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realising its significance or contemplating its legacy. Simon Armitage Dylan Jones explains how a bunch of penniless nightclub show - offs morphed into pop royalty in the 1980s An excitable patchwork of interviews punctuated with gossip and pertinent theory. Uncut It's all here: the swishing the androgynous preening the sweetly - dreamt synth - pop splendour of early 80s Britain. Something was happening and Mr. Jones knew what it was. Barney Hoskyns
Title: Sweet Dreams From Club Culture To Style Culture The Story Of The New Romantics
Author(s): Jones Dylan (Editor)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571353446
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 12/14/2021
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
