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New Wave: Image is Everything (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
King Adkins
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Description for New Wave: Image is Everything (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
Hardcover. New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture.
New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Number of Pages
147
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137363541
SKU
V9781137363541
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Ref
99-15
About King Adkins
M. King Adkins works primarily in the fields of postmodernism and popular culture. During a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech, he began seeking ways to connect these research areas to STEM education. Currently he serves as Assistant Professor of Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Reviews for New Wave: Image is Everything (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
"Falling through the cracks between canonical studies of punk and recent work on post-punk, the music and culture of New Wave remain unexplored by scholars or critics. Matthew Adkins' New Wave: Image is Everything goes a long way in filling in this gap. Full of insights and theoretically rich, this book sets new wave against the backdrop of 1980s image ... Read more