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 anecdote and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.

【编辑推荐】
※一部关于音乐、抗争和信仰的编年史
※详述1981年到1991年美国独立音乐运动场景
※不可不读的独立摇滚经典之作
【内容简介】
Black Flag、Minutemen、Mission of Burma、Minor Threat、Hüsker Dü、
The Replacements、Sonic Youth、Butthole Surfers、Big Black、Dinosaur Jr.、
Fugazi、Mudhoney、Beat Happening
这些乐队是传奇，但许多人不知道为什么。
它们是一种音乐创新、一种哲学、一个地区或厂牌的代表
它们都反映了美国独立音乐发展过程中的某个特定时段
它们的DIY革命改变了美国音乐
《纽约时代》畅销书作家阿泽拉德代表作，以真诚、理性又翔实的声音
书写十三组乐坛“颠覆者”
重现20世纪80年代美国“地下”盛景