Cateforis, Theo.

Are we not new wave? modern pop at the turn of the 1980s / [electronic resource] : Theo Cateforis. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011. - 294 p. : ill., ports. - Tracking pop .

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.
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New wave music--History and criticism.
Popular music--History and criticism.--1981-1990


Electronic books.

ML3534 / .C37 2011eb

781.6409/048