Rip it up and start again: postpunk 1978-1984

Description

Public image belongs to me : John Lydon and PiL -- Autonomy in the U.K. : DIY and the British independent-label movement -- Tribal revival : the Pop Group and the Slits -- Militant entertainment : Gang of Four, the Mekons, and the Leeds scene -- Uncontrollable urge : the industrial grotesquerie of Pere Ubu and Devo -- Living for the future : Cabaret Voltaire, the Human League, and the Sheffield scene -- Just step sideways : The Fall, Joy Division, and the Manchester scene -- Industrial devolution : Throbbing Gristle's music from the death factory -- Contort yourself : no wave New York -- Art attack : Talking Heads, Wire, and Mission of Burma -- Messthetics : The London Vanguard -- Freak scene : cabaret noir and theater of cruelty in postpunk San Francisco -- Careering : PiL and postpunk's peak and fall -- Ghost dance : 2-tone and the ska resurrection -- Sex gang children : Malcolm McLaren, the Pied Piper of pantomime pop -- Mutant disco and punk funk : crosstown traffic in early eighties New York (and beyond) -- Fun 'n' frenzy : Postcard Records and the sound of young Scotland -- Electric dreams : synthpop -- Play to win : the pioneers of new pop -- New gold dreams 81-82-83-84 : new pop's peak, the second British invasion of America, and the rise of MTV -- Dark things and glory boys : the return of rock with goth and the new psychedelia -- Raiding the twentieth century : ZTT, the Art of Noise, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.;Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous and wonderfully strange music created in the years after punk.