An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary from
the heyday of British pop music writing. In its heyday, from the 1960s
to the 1980s, the UK music press was the forging ground for a new
critical culture, where readers could encounter anything from comics and
cult films to new musical forms and radical underground politics. It
created an off-mainstream collective cultural commons improvised through
a networked subculture of rival weeklies, monthlies, and fanzines,
including such titles as NME, Melody Maker, Sounds,Record Mirror, Black
Echoes, Black Music, Let It Rock, Street Life, Zigzag, and Smash Hits.
This anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary
explores how this uncharted space first came about, who put it together,
what it achieved, and where it went. Along the way, it unearths the
many surprising worlds explored by this network of young anarchists,
dreamers, and agitators who dared to take pop culture seriously, and
considers what remains of their critical legacy. ContributorsValerie
Wilmer, Charles Shaar Murray, Richard Williams, Penny Reel, Jonh Ingham,
Jon Savage, Cynthia Rose, Paul Morley, David Toop, Bob Stanley, Barney
Hoskyns, Jonathon Green, Simon Frith, Paul Gilroy, and many othersWith
cover and illustrations by legendary comics artist Savage Pencil.
A Hidden Landscape Once a Week : The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, in the words of those who were there
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