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Shiny and New - Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s (Hardcover)
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Shiny and New - Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s (Hardcover)
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The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new
style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the
'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy,
tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical
chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the
decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important
and popular hits, choosing records which either epitomised their
time, or ushered in a new cultural shift. So we move seamlessly
from Rapper's Delight and the genre defining moment of hip hop into
The Specials' spectral, Ghost Town; from ABC and the apotheosis of
New Pop (The Look of Love) to Madonna's breakthrough moment with
Like a Virgin, and so on. In the '80s each year brought a new twist
as technology shifted and genres snowballed, MTV reigned supreme
and the story of pop became globalised. It was a decade of excess
in all areas, especially ambition, but it was in the transcendent
moments of pop perfection that the '80s found its true art-form.
Subjective and idiosyncratic, SHINY AND NEW takes us from downtown
New York to post-industrial Manchester, in the first widescreen
attempt to weave together the stories, the songs and events that
re-shaped music and society.
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