Viac o knihe
Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics and fleeting political optimism - this was "Cool Britannia". Records sold in their millions, a new celebrity elite emerged and Tony Blair's Labour Party found itself, at long last, returned to government. Drawing on interviews from all the major bands - including Oasis, Blur, Elastica and Suede - from music journalists, record executives and those close to government, this title charts the rise and fall of the Britpop movement. John Harris was there; and in his book he argues that the high point of British music's cultural impact also signalled its effective demise - if rock stars were now friends of the government, then how could they continue to matter?
Nákup knihy
The last party : Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock, John Harris
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2003
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- John Harris
- Vydavateľ
- Fourth Estate
- Rok vydania
- 2003
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 448
- ISBN10
- 000713472x
- ISBN13
- 9780007134724
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Umenie & Kultúra, Spoločenské vedy, Historické téma, História, Skutočné príbehy, Životopisy, Politológia & Politika, Hudobná tematika, Politika, Hudba, Životopisy politikov, Populárna kultúra
- Hodnotenie
- 4,1 z 5
- Anotácia
- Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics and fleeting political optimism - this was "Cool Britannia". Records sold in their millions, a new celebrity elite emerged and Tony Blair's Labour Party found itself, at long last, returned to government. Drawing on interviews from all the major bands - including Oasis, Blur, Elastica and Suede - from music journalists, record executives and those close to government, this title charts the rise and fall of the Britpop movement. John Harris was there; and in his book he argues that the high point of British music's cultural impact also signalled its effective demise - if rock stars were now friends of the government, then how could they continue to matter?