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Dance Prone (Hardcover) Loot Price: R365
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Dance Prone (Hardcover): David Coventry

Dance Prone (Hardcover)

David Coventry

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'A raw and raging celebration of music . . . astounding.' Megan Bradbury 'Funny, filthy, erudite, and rude.' Carl Shuker 'A magnificent novel.' Alan McMonagle During their 1985 tour, two events of hatred and stupidity forever change the lives of a band's four members. Neues Bauen, a post-hardcore Illinois group homing in on their own small fame, head on with frontman Conrad Wells sexually assaulted and guitarist Tone Seburg wounded by gunshot. The band staggers forth into the American landscape, traversing time and investigating each of their relationships with history, memory, authenticity, violence and revelling in transcendence through the act of art. With decades passed and compelled by his wife's failing health to track down Tone, Conrad flies to North Africa where her brother is rumoured to be hiding with a renowned artist from their past. There he instead meets various characters including his former drummer, Spence. Amongst the sprawl and shout of Morocco, the men attempt to recall what happened to them during their lost years of mental disintegration and emotional poverty. Dance Prone is a novel of music, ritual and love. It is live, tense and corporeal. Full of closely observed details of indie-rock, of punk infused performance, the road and the players' relationship to violence, hate and peace. Set during both the post-punk period and the present day, Dance Prone was born out of a love of the underground and indie rock scenes of the 1980s, a fascination for their role in the cultural apparatus of memory, social decay and its reconstruction.

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Imprint: Picador
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2020
Authors: David Coventry
Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-1-5098-3942-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Indie
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Indie
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LSN: 1-5098-3942-9
Barcode: 9781509839421

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