Bücher von Simon Reynolds

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 when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity - the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism - never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?

Dieses Buch versammelt Texte über Musik, die zu der Zeit ihrer Veröffentlichung die Zukunft scheinbar vorhersagen konnte - egal, ob diese Zukunft nun als Utopie oder als Dystopie verstanden wurde. Musik also, die ähnlich wie das literarische Genre der Science-Fiction eine Prognose künftiger Gegebenheiten wagte und bewusst auf das Andere als auf das Gegenwärtige, sattsam Bekannte setzte. Demgemäß rücken in »Futuromania« die elektronischen Soundpionier:innen von Kraftwerk und Giorgio Moroder bis Missy Elliot, Migos und Daft Punk mit ihren neuartigen Erzählungen in den Fokus; (vormals) vorwärtsgewandte Spielarten des Pop wie Electronic Body Music, Detroit Techno, Synthpop und New Age werden als Soundtrack für unsere Vorstellungen von einem ungewissen Morgen in Erinnerung gebracht.»Futuromania« ist Simon Reynolds' ganz bewusste Referenz auf seinen eigenen Popkultur-Klassiker »Retromania«; nur eben als eine »positive Umkehrung« des von ihm entwickelten Begriffs verstanden. Reynolds analysiert hier also nicht das Recyceln und die Wiederkehr des Gestern, sondern vielmehr die nahezu »fantastische« Ungeduld und Vitalität, die Musik, die bestens über ihre eigene Historie Bescheid weiß, auch bedeuten kann.

The Glitter. The THEATRICS. The EXCESS. The Music.The true story of the gender-bending artists who changed rock and roll.Simon Reynolds has been hailed as ?the foremost popular music critic of this era? (Times Literary Supplement [UK]), ?unassailable? (New York Times), and ?the most provocative pop music writer of his generation? (Boston Globe). Now, the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania delivers the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop.Reacting against the drab, denim-clad long-hair bands of the hippie era, glam rock was the first true teenage rampage of the Seventies. Pioneered by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, New York Dolls and Roxy Music, this new look and sound reveled in artifice and spectacle over earnestness and authenticity. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a deeply researched and wildly entertaining cultural tour through the glam explosion?a period defined by glitzy costumes and alien makeup, thrilling music, and larger-than-life personas. Shock and Awe offers a fresh look at the glam phenomenon, placing it the context of the era's social upheaval and political disillusion. Probing the genre's major themes?fame, androgyny, decadence, apocalypse?Reynolds traces glam's influence as it reverberates across subsequent decades, from art-pop aesthetes like Kate Bush, Prince and Morrissey in the Eighties to contemporary pop icons such as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé. Shock and Awe reveals how the original glam artists' obsessions and provocations continue to ripple through our culture today.

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As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex -- all are represented here. Reynolds charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and brings it right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.Shock and Awe is a defining work and another classic in the Faber Social rock n roll canon to stand alongside Rip it Up, Electric Eden and Yeah Yeah Yeah.

Reynolds offers a guided tour of rave culture and techno music in this first critical history of the genre--and the drug culture that accompanies it. 40-page discography. of illustrations.