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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Faber & Faber, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0571353436
ISBN-13
9780571353439
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038689394
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sweet Dreams : from Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, General
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
37.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-445353
Reviews
"Dylan Jones's Sweet Dreams is a vast and fascinating collection of interviews that showcase a decade of Britishmusic and culture--the New Romantic period, from 1975-1985. Mid-seventies England was full of chaos and creativity as art school students found belonging in Bowie-themednightclubs. Through interviews with designers, performers, and influencers, the evolution of this English outsiders'scene is documented from an insider perspective, while a recommended discography provides a soundtrack for thedecade. Though England's punk scene burned out, its DIY philosophies and disruptive appearance imprinted itself upon thecreatives of an era. Club goers describe hand-making their outfits for places like the Blitz, defined by its beautiful andexperimental crowd. The style magazine was born, kickstarting celebrity culture, and the first paparazzi competed forphotographs and gossip. Creators of magazines like i-D explain their visions, while hairdressers and designersinvented a new profession to fit the times--that of the stylist. For the New Romantics, style was also a reclamation of self: musicians like Annie Lennox and Boy George discusshow their androgyny and sexuality subverted gender roles and was liberating for gay fans. Interviews impart the painof the AIDs epidemic, which killed many people and impeded society's burgeoning acceptance of the LGBTQ+community. History and technology merge as musicians recall synthesizers becoming affordable, describing them as the sound ofthe future. The relationship between music and visual media was strengthened by television; bands like Duran Durantalk about how music videos linked their music with a lifestyle. The Live Aid concert, popularized by global coverage,began the rise of stadium tours, taking London's street culture around the world. Sweet Dreams contextualizes the fashion, politics, sex, and technology involved in the music of The New Romantics,allowing the story of the movement to be told by those who created it." -- Foreword Reviews, "In this colorful and sprawling oral history, Jones ( David Bowie: The Oral History ), editor-in-chief of British GQ, stitches together quotes from over 100 interviewees on the aesthetic revolution that birthed New Wave." -- Publishers Weekly "Jones is a wonderful writer, and his descriptions of the scene at the Blitz--the "divine decadence"--are brilliant... Jones makes an airtight case in Sweet Dreams that the New Romantics deserve more respect." -- Splice Today "One heck of a lot of fun." -- Record Collector News "The marvellously suave Mr. Jones rehabilitates the scenesters' scene : a time and place once dismissed by rain-coated puritans like me, only to be brought gloriously to life years later - like a peacock's fanning tail - in this definitive oral history. It's all here: the swishing, the androgynous preening, the sweetly-dreamt synth-pop splendour of early '80s Britain. Something was happening, and Mr. Jones knew what it was." -- Barney Hoskyns "Jones' style - part testimony, part documentary - sheds light on one of the most unanticipated and misunderstood shifts in popular music and street fashion, that sudden lurch towards the swank and ostentation of New Romanticism, a style that seemed arrogant and contrary in its origins but would define the nature and direction of music for at least a decade. Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realising its significance or contemplating its legacy." -- Simon Armitage, " An oral history of England's New Romantic pop movement, full of synths, style, and substance (no, really). Conventional 1970 and '80s rock history draws a direct line from punk to new wave to mainstream alternative acts, dismissing the likes of ABC, Spandau Ballet, Human League, and Culture Club as sideshows. But the more than 150 voices assembled by longtime pop journalist and GQ editor-in-chief Jones offer a more sophisticated--and, frankly, less homophobic--take. The scenesters who convened on London clubs like the Blitz saw punk as a spent force by the late '70s and were more enchanted by electronic acts like Kraftwerk and the enduring glamour of David Bowie and Roxy Music. (For this crowd, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love," not a Sex Pistols or Clash single, was the key inspiration.) No question, fashion mattered plenty: Blitz impresario and Visage frontman Steve Strange proudly turned Mick Jagger away from his club because he was "dressed in a baseball cap and trainers." But the music was vital, too, and Jones captures a moment when acts like Gary Numan, Yazoo, and Soft Cell were delivering pioneering synth-pop graced with some of Bowie's stardust. The rise of MTV gave those bands a global platform but also spawned an army of lesser wannabes (even a young Ricky Gervais got into the act) and opened the movement to accusations of being only as good as their haircuts. The assembled commentators come armed with dishy anecdotes, though casual readers would be satisfied with a book half as long. By the time 1985 rolled around, heroin and fickle tastes had undone many of the musicians, which somewhat undercuts the author's case for the musicians' enduring influence. (Oddly, two of the era's enduring acts, the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode, get relatively short shrift.) But for a while there, everybody looked and sounded great. A factoid-rich if bloated tribute to an overly maligned moment in pop history." -- Kirkus, "In this colorful and sprawling oral history, Jones ( David Bowie: The Oral History ), editor-in-chief of British GQ, stitches together quotes from over 100 interviewees on the aesthetic revolution that birthed New Wave." -- Publishers Weekly "Jones is a wonderful writer, and his descriptions of the scene at the Blitz--the "divine decadence"--are brilliant... Jones makes an airtight case in Sweet Dreams that the New Romantics deserve more respect." -- Splice Today, "In this colorful and sprawling oral history, Jones ( David Bowie: The Oral History ), editor-in-chief of British GQ, stitches together quotes from over 100 interviewees on the aesthetic revolution that birthed New Wave." -- Publishers Weekly, "Jones' style - part testimony, part documentary - sheds light on one of the most unanticipated and misunderstood shifts in popular music and street fashion, that sudden lurch towards the swank and ostentation of New Romanticism, a style that seemed arrogant and contrary in its origins but would define the nature and direction of music for at least a decade. Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realising its significance or contemplating its legacy." -- Simon Armitage, "The marvellously suave Mr. Jones rehabilitates the scenesters' scene : a time and place once dismissed by rain-coated puritans like me, only to be brought gloriously to life years later - like a peacock's fanning tail - in this definitive oral history. It's all here: the swishing, the androgynous preening, the sweetly-dreamt synth-pop splendour of early '80s Britain. Something was happening, and Mr. Jones knew what it was." -- Barney Hoskyns
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
782.421640922
Table Of Content
More than 100 original interviews including: Duran Duran New Order Depeche Mode Malcolm McLaren John Lydon Madonna Gary Numan Vivienne Westwood Giorgio Moroder Adam Ant Prince Sade Neneh Cherry Daryl Hall John Oates Sting Bob Geldof Bono Bryan Ferry Chrissie Hynde Midge Ure Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys Debbie Harry Peter York Stephen Jones Paul Smith (designer) George Michael Andrew Ridgeley Antony Price (designer) Ricky Gervais Fiona Dealey (designer) Boy George Tracey Emin Paul Weller Andy Bell of Erasure Viv Albertine Julian Temple David Bowieand more
Synopsis
The definitive history of the Blitz Kids, Synth-Pop and the Style Press from 1975 to 1985. Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of print and broadcast media, and was arguably one of the most bohemian environments of the late twentieth century. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonised by British pop music - Depeche Mode, Culture Club, Wham!, Soft Cell, Ultravox, Duran Duran, Sade, Spandau Ballet, the Eurythmics and many more - making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles. For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this., The definitive oral history of the New Romantics. Sweet Dreams charts the British cultural explosion that happened in the ten years from 1975-1985 -- the rise of the New Romantics. Growing out of the remnants of the post-punk period, the New Romantics introduced club culture, ska, electronica, and goth to the world. One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of broadcast media. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonized by British pop music, making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles. For fans of Jon Savage's 1966 and Lizzie Goodman's Meet Me in the Bathroom -- SWEET DREAMS is the fascinating story of how The New Romantic movement was born in the British clubs of the late 1970s and flourished on the radio and television airwaves of the early 1980s. Sweet Dreams were made of this.
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