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Are we not new wave? [electronic resource] : modern pop at the turn of the 1980s / Theo Cateforis.

By: Cateforis, Theo.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Tracking pop. Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011Description: 294 p. : ill., ports.Subject(s): New wave music -- History and criticism | Popular music -- 1981-1990 -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 781.6409/048 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Tracking the tide : the new wave washes in and out -- The second British Invasion and its aftermath : from new pop to modern rock -- From neurasthenia to nervousness : the whiteness of the new wave -- Camp! kitsch! trash! new wave and the politics of irony -- "(I wish it could be) 1965 again" : power pop and the mining of rock's modern past -- "Roll over guitar heroes, synthesizers are here . . ." -- Kings of the wild frontier -- Epilogue : The new wave revival.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tracking the tide : the new wave washes in and out -- The second British Invasion and its aftermath : from new pop to modern rock -- From neurasthenia to nervousness : the whiteness of the new wave -- Camp! kitsch! trash! new wave and the politics of irony -- "(I wish it could be) 1965 again" : power pop and the mining of rock's modern past -- "Roll over guitar heroes, synthesizers are here . . ." -- Kings of the wild frontier -- Epilogue : The new wave revival.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.