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1989 [electronic resource] : Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about / Joshua Clover.
Author
Clover, Joshua
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Description
1 online resource (205 p.)
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Popular music
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1981-1990
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History and criticism
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Rap (Music)
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History and criticism
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Underground dance music
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History and criticism
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Grunge music
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History and criticism
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Nineteen eighty-nine, A.D.
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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." His analysis deftly moves among varied artists and genres including Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, De La Soul, The KLF, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, U2, Jesus Jones, the Scorpions, George Michael, Madonna, Roxette, and others. This elegantly written work, deliberately mirroring history as dialectical and ongoing, summons forth a new understanding of how "history had come out to meet pop as something more than a fairytale, or something less. A truth, a way of being."
Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Prologue
Introduction: The Long 1989
Part One. 1989 (the unconfined unreckoned year)
Part Two. "1989" (a shout in the street)
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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ISBN
1-282-77263-5
9786612772634
0-520-94464-X
OCLC
497190777
Doi
10.1525/9780520944640
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