{"product_id":"1989-bob-dylan-didnt-have-this-to-sing-about-paperback","title":"1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing about - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Clover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as \"the end of history.\" Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, pop music also experienced striking changes. Vividly conjuring cultural sensations and events, Clover tracks the emergence of seemingly disconnected phenomena--from grunge to acid house to gangsta rap--asking if \"perhaps pop had been biding its time until 1989 came along to make sense of its sensibility.\" His analysis deftly moves among varied artists and genres including Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, De La Soul, The KLF, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, U2, Jesus Jones, the Scorpions, George Michael, Madonna, Roxette, and others. This elegantly written work, deliberately mirroring history as dialectical and ongoing, summons forth a new understanding of how \"history had come out to meet pop as something more than a fairytale, or something less. A truth, a way of being.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Clover finally puts the lie to the tiresome cliche that 'writing about music is like dancing about architecture.' He shows definitively that when the time is right, architecture is precisely what people do dance about.--Greil Marcus, author of \u003ci\u003eLipstick Traces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Clover, \u003c\/b\u003e Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Totality for Kids \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press), \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMadonna anno domini.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.84 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48931890004196,"sku":"9780520267879","price":51.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/0850\/8132\/files\/MkYrRFpyZWhsYklBWmZHRU1pY0llUT09.webp?v=1778847709","url":"https:\/\/triumviratebooks.com\/hr\/products\/1989-bob-dylan-didnt-have-this-to-sing-about-paperback","provider":"Triumvirate Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}