A Hidden Landscape Once a Week
The Unruly Curiosity of the British Music Press from the '60s to the '80s… by those who made it happen
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2019
Summary
An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary from the heyday of British pop music writing.In its heyday, from the 1960s to the 1980s, the UK music press was the forging ground for a new critical culture, where readers could encounter anything from comics and cult films to new musical forms and radical underground politics. It created an off-mainstream collective cultural commons improvised through a networked subculture of rival weeklies, monthlies, and fanzines, includin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781907222634 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1907222634 |
| Author: | Mark Sinker |
| Publisher: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Imprint: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 586g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | A Hidden Landscape Once a Week |
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Critics Review
This book is a celebration, a critique, a discussion, a history, a conversation, an intriguing read, and a catalogue of possibilities – what more could you want?
—International TimesWith this volume, [Sinker] celebrates the noise of disagreement and critical tension. His editing and framing of the volume turn it into something more interesting than a simple celebration of some kind of “golden age of music journalism”, because, as he puts it “resurgent gleeful cacophony is much more the reality than nostalgia: a polyglot discourse rude and smart.”
—Irish TimesTop-notch interviewees, a real delight
—MOJOAbout The Author
Mark Sinker
Mark Sinker is a music writer, journalist, and former editor of The Wire magazine.
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