End of the Century Party by Steve Redhead

End of the Century Party by Steve Redhead

Proclamations were frequently made early in the 1980s about the end of the youth culture and the new conformism. Adulthood was in as were postmodernism, flaunting material success and the enterprise culture and the music became safe along with the culture. This book offers an alternative perspective on popular music and youth culture in the 1980s and beyond. Based on interviews with disc jockeys, record magnates, musicians, producers and fans, it describes and analyzes the shift for New Pop in the early 1980s to what it calls Political Pop in the mid-late 1980s. This movement involved a change in pop thinking, a move from an obsession with style, packaging and synthetic sounds to content, socially conscious lyrics and a new rock-oriented authenticity. However spurious and uneven this move, pop and rock definitions and their use changed dramatically during the decade as the rightward surge in social fields gathered pace. The book shows how the pop media formation of Political Pop in turn produced its own deviant offspring, Post-Political Pop. Steve Redhead's analysis is completed by a representative discography and bibliography.

Steve Redhead is Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University, Australia. He has published fifteen books including: Sing When You're Winning: The Last Football Book, Football With Attitude, Rave Off, The Passion and The Fashion: Football Fandom in the New Europe, Post-Fandom and The Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture, Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture, The Paul Virilio Reader and The Jean Baudrillard Reader. His book We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light was nominated for the American Comparative Literature Association Rene Wellek Prize. Steve edits the Subcultural Style book series for Bloomsbury and is a reviewer for the Times Higher Education. He is Associate Editor of CrimeTalk and a member of many journal editorial boards, including CrimeTalk, Sport in Society, International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, fusion, I-M e-journal, and Entertainment and Sports Law Journal

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ISBN 13	9780719028267
ISBN 10	0719028264
Title	End of the Century Party
Author	Steve Redhead
Series	Cultural Politics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	1990-04-26
Number of pages	192
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