An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary
from the heyday of British pop music writing. In its heyday, from
the 1960s to the 1980s, the UK music press was the forging ground
for a new critical culture, where readers could encounter anything
from comics and cult films to new musical forms and radical
underground politics. It created an off-mainstream collective
cultural commons improvised through a networked subculture of rival
weeklies, monthlies, and fanzines, including such titles as NME,
Melody Maker, Sounds , Record Mirror, Black Echoes, Black Music,
Let It Rock, Street Life, Zigzag, and Smash Hits. This anthology of
conversations and essays, memories and commentary explores how this
uncharted space first came about, who put it together, what it
achieved, and where it went. Along the way, it unearths the many
surprising worlds explored by this network of young anarchists,
dreamers, and agitators who dared to take pop culture seriously,
and considers what remains of their critical legacy. Contributors
Valerie Wilmer, Charles Shaar Murray, Richard Williams, Penny Reel,
Jonh Ingham, Jon Savage, Cynthia Rose, Paul Morley, David Toop, Bob
Stanley, Barney Hoskyns, Jonathon Green, Simon Frith, Paul Gilroy,
and many others With cover and illustrations by legendary comics
artist Savage Pencil.
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