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Subject(s)

• Popular music—1981-1990—History and criticism [Browse]
• Rap (Music)—History and criticism [Browse]
• Electronic dance music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Grunge music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Nineteen eighty-nine, A.D. [Browse]

Summary note

In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "the end of history." Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, pop music also experienced striking changes. Vividly conjuring cultural sensations and events, Clover tracks the emergence of seemingly disconnected phenomena--from grunge to acid house to gangsta rap--asking if "perhaps pop had been biding its time until 1989 came along to make sense of its sensibility."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Other title(s)

Nineteen eighty-nine

ISBN

• 9780520944640 (electronic bk.)
• 052094464X (electronic bk.)

International Article Number

• 9780520267879

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