Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible

Dr. David Evans (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3170-1 (ISBN)

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In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band’s lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division’s Closer and Nirvana’s In Utero, the valedictory works of troubled young men.

This book tells the dramatic story of Manic Street Preachers' masterpiece. Tracing the album's origins in the Valleys, an industrialised region of South Wales where the band spent their formative years, the author argues that The Holy Bible can be seen as a meditation on the uses and abuses of history.

David Evans was born in Cardiff and educated at Cardiff University. He holds a DPhil in American Literature from the University of Oxford. His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Independent on Sunday, FT Weekend and Sight & Sound. This is his first book.

Track Listing
Prologue
Introduction
Scars
The bigger things
Things can only get better
This is yesterday
Machines
Into the black
Portals
Forever delayed
Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 162 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-5013-3170-1 / 1501331701
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-3170-1 / 9781501331701
Zustand	Neuware