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Book by Reynolds, Simon
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About the Author
Simon Reynolds and Joy Press are married and live in New York. Joy Press is the literary editor of the VLS, the literary supplement to the Village Voice. Simon Reynolds is the author of Blissed Out.
From Publishers Weekly
Prince, Nick Cave, Front 242, Throwing Muses, punk, acid house, soul--these are the names and trends that resonate throughout this collection of essays on pop music, written mostly for London's Melody Maker . Reynolds lets their vibration speak clearly through his eclectic writing style, mixing journalism with literary theory. It makes for a sometimes engaging, sometimes sluggish read. The interviews with pop music personalities are fascinating; something unexpected always crops up in these conversations. In his interview with Nick Cave, the author asks, "Do you resent the arbitrary power that beautiful people have?" and the sardonic singer replies, "Perhaps you could lighten up a little bit." But when Reynolds steps onto a political podium for a monologue, things slow down and become polemical: "Pop's power, its danger and its crime, consist in its overstimulation of desires for pleasure and for self-aggrandizement: desires constructed by capitalism." Such passages constitute the thrust of Reynolds's music theory, which occasionally reduces Foucault, Kristeva148-149 and Barthes to mere mouthpieces for socialism.
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 1852421991
- ISBN 13 9781852421991
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Blissed Out : the Raptures of Rock
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blissed Out is a celebration of the 'underground' music of the 1980s. From hardcore to hip hop, acid rock to acid house, these cults contradict the widely-held view that 'rock is dead' and that there is nothing left for musicians to do but play pick 'n' mix with thirty years of pop history. When he writes about his favourite bands, Throwing Muses, My Bloody Valentine, The Young Gods and Loop, Simon Reynolds captures the giddy exhilaration of their music. 192 p. ; 23 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Seller Inventory # 016247
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