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1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing about Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Joshua Clover


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In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "the end of history." Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, pop music also experienced striking changes. Vividly conjuring cultural sensations and events, Clover tracks the emergence of seemingly disconnected phenomena--from grunge to acid house to gangsta rap--asking if "perhaps pop had been biding its time until 1989 came along to make sense of its sensibility." His analysis deftly moves among varied artists and genres including Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, De La Soul, The KLF, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, U2, Jesus Jones, the Scorpions, George Michael, Madonna, Roxette, and others. This elegantly written work, deliberately mirroring history as dialectical and ongoing, summons forth a new understanding of how "history had come out to meet pop as something more than a fairytale, or something less. A truth, a way of being."

From the rear cover

"Joshua Clover finally puts the lie to the tiresome cliche that 'writing about music is like dancing about architecture.' He shows definitively that when the time is right, architecture is precisely what people do dance about."--Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces

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  • Title 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing about
  • Author Joshua Clover
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 198
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2009-11-06
  • ISBN 9780520267879 / 0520267877
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.84 x 5.8 x 0.51 in (22.45 x 14.73 x 1.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Rap (Music) - History and criticism, Grunge music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009018653
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.640

About the author

Joshua Clover, Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, is author of The Totality for Kids (UC Press), The Matrix, and Madonna anno domini.
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