Excavate! (eBook)

Tessa Norton, Bob Stanley (Autoren)

Tessa Norton, Bob Stanley (Ursprünglicher Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
420 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-35835-9 (ISBN)

Infos

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT, THE HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their world. 'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.' DAVID PEACE 'Mind blowing . . . there is so much to enjoy in this brilliant book.' TIM BURGESS 'A container sized treasure trove . . . I strongly advise you to buy it.' MAXINE PEAKE 'The most wonderful, unashamedly intellectual, pretentious, ridiculous, exciting hymn to this incredible group.' ANDY MILLER, BACKLISTED Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation. Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work. Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, EXCAVATE! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.

Bob Stanley is a writer, musician, DJ, and film producer. Since founding influential pop group Saint Etienne, Bob has enjoyed a parallel career as a music journalist, contributing to publications such as the Times, Smash Hits, NME, the Guardian and the Face. A former artist-in-residence at the Southbank Centre, his films have been shown at the ICA and Royal Festival Hall, and he has curated several seasons for the Barbican. He is the author of Yeah Yeah Yeah, which was the Sunday Times Pop Music Book of the Year and a Rough Trade Book of the Year. His previous book was the critically acclaimed Excavate: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall, co-edited with Tessa Norton.

Rezensionen

This collection of ephemera and essays strives to pin down the mightiest post-punk phenomenon of them all, taking a psychogeographical creepy crawl around Smith's hometown and investigating - among other topics - his "new puritan" work ethic and love/hate relationship with "professionalism".

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: Blue Orchids • Hex Enduction Hour, The Nation's Saving Grace, Live at the Witch Trials, Dragnet, Grotesque • Joy Division • Mark E. Smith • New order • Paul Hanley, Simon Wolstencroft, Karl Burns, Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon, Steve Hanley • Post-Punk • Post-Punk, Punk, Manchester Music Scene, Joy Division, New Order, Sex Pistols • Sex Pistols • The Fall • yeah yeah yeah • Yeah Yeah Yeah, Bob Stanley
• ISBN-10: 0-571-35835-7 / 0571358357
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35835-9 / 9780571358359