Bring the Noise 20 Years of Writing about Hip Rock and Hip Hop |
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| Author:
| Reynolds, Simon |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59376-401-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 2011 |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint Press
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| Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Bring the Noiseweaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artistsMorrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radioheadwith Reynolds’s own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from the author of
Rip It Up and Start Again,
Bring the...
More Description Bring the Noiseweaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artistsMorrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radioheadwith Reynolds’s own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from the author ofRip It Up and Start Again,Bring the Noisetracks the alternately fraught and fertile relationship between white bohemia and black street music. The selections transmit the immediacy of their moment while offering a running commentary on the broader enduring questions of race and resistance, multiculturalism, and division. From grunge to grime, from Madchester to the Dirty South,Bring the Noisechronicles hip hop and alternative rock’s competing claims to be the cutting edge of innovation and the voice of opposition in an era of conservative backlash. Alert to both the vivid detail and the big picture, Simon Reynolds has shaped a compelling narrative that cuts across a thrillingly turbulent two-decade period of pop music.