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Generation Ecstasy by Simon Reynolds (Paperback - Routledge)

In the early nineties, rave culture exploded with the availability of cheap computers and sampling technology, causing a punk-style do-it-yourself revolution. The resulting upsurge of independent labels and home studio-based artists spawned a legion of subgenres: hardcore, trance, jungle, ambient, gabba, big beat, and many more. Today, DJs and producers such as Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Goldie and The Chemical Brothers have huge followings, while mainstream artists like Madonna and Bjork have turned to rave's offspring for artistic rejuvenation.

In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. The first critical history of techno music--and the drug culture that accompanies it--Generation Ecstasy traces rave's origins in Detroit techno and Chicago house, then shows how these black American genres were transformed by British and European youth. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about the artists and the DJs who created dance culture, the fans for whom it is a way of life, and the dance club and outdoor rave scenes that brought it both fame and infamy.

A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat and the ultimate rush, Generation Ecstasy is the definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.

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Grown Up All Wrong by Robert Christgau (Paperback - Harvard Univ Pr)

A critical compendium of points of interest in American popular music and its far-flung diaspora, this book ranges from the 1950s singer-songwriter tradition through hip-hop, alternative, and beyond. With unfailing style and grace, Christgau negotiates the straits of great music and thorny politics, as in the cases of Public Enemy, blackface artist Emmett Miller, KRS-One, the Beastie Boys, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. He illuminates legends from pop music and the beginnings of rock and roll--George Gershwin, Nat King Cole, B. B. King, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presley--and looks at the subtle transition to just plain "rock" in the music of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and others. He praises the endless vitality of Al Green, George Clinton, and Neil Young. And from the Rolling Stones to Sonic Youth to Nirvana, from Bette Midler to Michael Jackson to DJ Shadow, he shows how money calls the tune in careers that aren't necessarily compromised by their intercourse with commerce.
Rock and punk and hip-hop, pop and world beat: this is the music of the second half of the twentieth century, skillfully framed in the work of a writer whose reach, insight, and perfect pitch make him one of the major cultural critics of our time.

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Turn That Down! by Lewis Grossberger (Pa...

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Turn That Down! by Lewis Grossberger (Paperback - Clerisy Pr)

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Spin by SPIN MAGAZINE (Paperback - Three Rivers Pr)

The editors of SPIN magazine offer a definitive, illustrated overview of two decades of alternative music in more than fifty essays by such distinguished journalists as Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Ann Powers, and Marc Spitz on the evolution of alternative rock as revealed by the contributions of REM, The Pixies, Weezer, Nirvana, and other seminal bands.

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Grown Up All Wrong by Robert Christgau (Hardcover - Harvard Univ Pr)

Rock, punk, hip-hop, and world beat: this is the music of the second half of the 20th century, skillfully framed in the work of a writer whose reach, insight, and perfect pitch make him one of the major cultural critics of our time.

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Techno Play-Along by Tony Verderosa (Paperback - Hal Leonard Corp)

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Multiple Meaning Techno by Jean-Luc Nancy (Paperback - Dis Voir Editions)

One of the more intriguing aspects of contemporary culture, is techno music more than mere escapist entertainment?. In terms of how it has appropriated technology for festive and aesthetic purposes, the techno movement could be considered a sort of artistic and political laboratory of the present. This book explores techno from all vantage points.

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Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko (Paperback - Painted Turtle)

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Discstyle the Graphic Arts of Electronic Music and Club Culture House Techno Electro Triphop Drum'N

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