Саймон Рейнольдс - автор 8 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Ретромания, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Сегодня поп-культура помешалась на ретро и знаменательных годовщинах. Музыкальные группы воссоединяются и отправляются в турне; выходят трибьюты и коллекционные издания; юбилейные фестивали и концерты проходят под флагами легендарных пластинок, — будущее музыки с каждым годом всё больше определяется прошлым, и оно становится настоящей угрозой для её развития. Быть может величайшая опасность будуще...
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the vide...
Iggy Pop once said of women: "However close they come I'll always pull the rug from under them. That's where my music is made." For so long, rock 'n' roll has been fueled by this fear and loathing of the feminine. The first book to look at rock rebellion through the lens of gender, The Sex Revolts captures the paradox at rock's dark heart--the music is often most thrilling when it is most misogyni...
With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gang of Four, and Devo, postpunk achieved new relevance in the first decade of the twenty-first ce...
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfe
Mixing analysis with interviews, this study of rock music celebrates the "underground" music that has challenged consensual notions of what makes rock "legitimate". Topics discussed include the rise of feminine consciousness in rock and the continuing allure of apocalyptic heavy metal.
Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists—Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead—with Reynolds’s own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from ...