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| Title | : | Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s (Tracking Pop) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472034707 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
"In carefully distinguishing the ways in which a genre is historically informed and discursively created, Cateforis has given us an exemplary treatise on an emergent historical phenomenon, a feat that can be appreciated by anyone interested in genre, even if they cannot distinguish their Kajagoogoo from their Spandau Ballet."—James Paasche, Popular Music and Society (James Paasche Popular Music and Society 2012-07-24)
In Are We Not New Wave? Theo Cateforis provides the first musical and cultural history of the new wave movement, charting its rise out of mid-1970s punk to its ubiquitous early 1980s MTV presence and downfall in the mid-1980s. The book also explores the meanings behind the music's distinctive traits-its characteristic whiteness and nervousness; its playful irony, electronic melodies, and crossover experimentations. Cateforis traces new wave's modern sensibilities back to the space-age consumer culture of the late 1950s/early 1960s. Theo Cateforis is Assistant Professor of Music History and Culture in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University.
Excellent overview of new wave ihasch To me New Wave has always been a subject sorely in need of clarification. Like "punk" and "post punk", exactly what it is and exactly who it refers to has always been a matter of confusion. As the main title of the book suggests (a play on Devo's Are We Not Men), the author endeavors through this study to define what new wave is all about. In fact, the title indicates the author's recognition that such clarification is needed. To many people, new wave has been narrowly synonomous with the synthpop bands they saw in videos in the early days of MTV. This is not surprising. Such bands were highl. Finally, New Wave gets the respect it deserves There have been hundreds of books written about Punk and Post-Punk music in which New Wave was seldom mentioned (even though New Wave grew out of Punk). And when it actually was discussed, it was often only touched upon briefly, as if it was some sort of footnote. Quite the opposite, Theo Cateforis' book places New Wave music front and center, which has long been overdue. I found this book to be a great read on an often misunderstood genre of music. Especially interesting is the section that deals extensively with Adam & the Ants and their unique album "Kings of the Wild Frontier," which to m. "Tsunami of Analysis" according to D.J. Stroud. I was happily soaked by New Wave in the late 70s and early 80s, so I was looking forward to this book by Theo Cateforis. Unfortunately, it was a long, hard slog to get through it in order to glean a few nuggets of comprehensible information. Cateforis' writing is as dry as a bone, and as ponderous as album-oriented rock. In fact, the only really down-to-earth comments were quotes from the artists themselves. As Blondie's Chris Stein stated: "Everything is bulls*** in the '70s." To me, after enduring the beige and bland 1970s, set to a soundtrack of Delta Dawn, disco, and A Horse with No Name,
Theo Cateforis is Assistant Professor of Music History and Culture in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University. His research is in the areas of American Music, Popular Music Studies, and Twentieth-Century Art Music. He is editor of the anthology The Rock History Reader.
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