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Overview"He's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Patti Smith after her seventeen-year hiatus from rock. One reviewer hailed his previous book England is Mine as ""surely the strangest and most beautiful book on pop music ever written."" Greil Marcus said that even the ""merely superb"" passages of that book read like ""intellectual sunrises,"" calling the work ""intoxicated and intoxicating."" The author in question is Michael Bracewell, celebrated surveyor of the punk and rock scenes. Now, through funny, engaging, and occasionally devastating essays about his experience in the thick of the music scene of the 1990s, Bracewell tackles a decade where Greed became disguised as Attitude, where a ""cozy, urban feelgood fable"" replaced punk, and where the role of anxiety, so intrinsic to the culture and music of the 1980s, was swapped for a shallow ""I feel your pain"" sensibility. Read When Surface Was Depth and discover why Time Out has called Michael Bracewell, in a word, ""terrific.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael BracewellPublisher: Hachette Books Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.424kg ISBN: 9780306811302ISBN 10: 0306811308 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 11 July 2002 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMichael Bracewell is an acclaimed novelist as well as nonfiction writer. He lives in England. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |