New Wave: Image is Everything

by K. Adkins

Overview

New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137363558
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/20/2015
Series:	Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	147
File size:	217 KB

About the Author

M. King Adkins works primarily in the fields of postmodernism and popular culture. During a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech, he began seeking ways to connect these research areas to STEM education. Currently he serves as Assistant Professor of Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction 2. New Wave's Rise in the UK 3. New Wave's Rise in the US 4. Making the Image Everything 5. Pure Images 6. The Return of Meaning Bibliography Discography

Editorial Reviews

"Falling through the cracks between canonical studies of punk and recent work on post-punk, the music and culture of New Wave remain unexplored by scholars or critics. Matthew Adkins' New Wave: Image is Everything goes a long way in filling in this gap. Full of insights and theoretically rich, this book sets new wave against the backdrop of 1980s image culture, tracing its roots in Pop Art and deftly mapping the connections between music, media and that cultural condition which came to be known as postmodernism." - Will Straw, McGill University, Canada

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