- Rock music, History and criticism, Punk rock music, Music Journalism
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous and wonderfully strange music created in the years after punk.
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Nostalgic, cool, classical in form and earnest.
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About the book
- Author
- Simon Reynolds
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143036722
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