Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth (eBook)

A Times Book of the Year

Cathi Unsworth (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
480 Seiten
Blink Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78870-625-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A Times Book of the YearA Mojo Book of the YearA Louder Than War Book of the YearA Waterstones Book of the YearA Resident Book of the Year'A beautifully written, meticulously researched account. 4/5.' - CLASSIC POP1979. Months of industrial action throughout the winter have left the dead unburied and mountains of rubbish piling up in the streets.Punk has reached its bleak climax with the fatal heroin overdose of Sid Vicious while awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend.Unlikely alliances of outsiders prepare to seize power, set the political agenda and write the soundtrack for the years to come. Their figureheads are two very different kinds of dominatrices...As Margaret Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street, a handful of bands born of punk - Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and the Cure - find a way to distil the dissonance and darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocked and dancing with the fetishistic, all will become global stars of goth.By the time Thatcher is cast out of office in 1990, the arrival of goth will have imprinted on the cultural landscape as much as the Iron Lady herself.Forty years on, author Cathi Unsworth provides the first comprehensive overview of the music, context and lasting legacy of goth. This is the story of how goth was shaped by the politics of the era - from the miners' strikes and privatisation to the Troubles and AIDS --- as well as how its rock 'n' roll outlaw imagery and music cross-pollinated throughout Britain and internationally, speaking to a generation of alienated youths.A fascinating social history, Season of the Witch tells the tale of an enduring counter-culture, one that steadfastly refuses to give up the ghost.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1980s • 20th Century Britain History • 80s • AIDS • ART • Batcave • Bauhaus • Biographies of Punk Rock Musicians • Britain • Counterculture • Dark Romanticism • Goth • Gothic fashion • Gothic literature • Gothic Rock • Goth Music • Goth Subculture • Horror • International Goth Day • Johnny Rotten • Joy Division • Magazine • Margaret Thatcher • Miners’ Strikes • music • Music History & Criticism • Nick Cave • Nihilism • Outlaws • Punk • Punk Music • Rock & Pop Musician Biographies • rock music • Sex Pistols • Sid Vicious • Siouxsie and The Banshees • Social & Cultural History • The Cure • Tories • Troubles
• ISBN-10: 1-78870-625-0 / 1788706250
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78870-625-4 / 9781788706254