Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary, Vol 6: Black Metal (2012)
Filed under journal | Tags: · black metal, music, music criticism, philosophy
Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia (catena, commentum, gemara, glossa, hypomnema, midrash, peser, pingdian, scholia, tafsir, talkhis, tika, vritti, zend, zhangju, et al). The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory.
With contributions by Steven Shakespeare, Aspasia Stephanou, Ben Woodard, Eugene Thacker.
Editors: Nicola Masciandaro & Reza Negarestani
Editor-in-Chief: Nicola Masciandaro
Published in June 2012
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License
ISBN 1477667466, 9781477667460
130 pages
Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · music, music criticism, music history, punk
Rip It Up and Start Again 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, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.
Publisher Penguin Books, 2006
ISBN 0143036726, 9780143036722
416 pages
Simon Reynolds: Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · mashup, music, music criticism, music history, popular culture
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band reformations and reunion tours, revivals and reissues, remakes and mash-ups … Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival resources of rock history have been exhausted? What happens when we run out of past?
Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have reached a tipping point. Earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity, but never before has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past.
Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own era?
Publisher Faber & Faber, 2011
ISBN 0865479941, 9780865479944
458 pages
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