<b>Rip It Up and Start Again</b> is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, <b>Rip It Up and Start Again</b> re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Simon Reynolds<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 01/01/2006<br><b>Pages:</b> 432<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143036722<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 01/16/2006 pg. 50<br><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> 01/15/2006 pg. 77<br><i>Library Journal</i> 02/15/2006 pg. 118<br><i>New York Times</i> 03/05/2006 pg. 6<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Simon Reynolds is the author of <i>Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture</i>, <i>Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock</i>, and <i>The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n'Roll<