Ronen Givony

Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Two and a half decades on, Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence. If anything, today, the cult of Jawbreaker-in their own words, "the little band that could but would probably rather not"-is now many times greater than it was when they broke up in 1996. Like the best work of Fugazi, The Clash, and Operation Ivy, the album is now is a rite of passage and a beloved classic among partisans of intelligent, committed, literary punk music and poetry.

Why, when a thousand other artists came and went in that confounding decade of the 90s, did Jawbreaker somehow come to seem like more than just another band? Why do they persist, today, in meaning so much to so many people? And how did it happen that, two years after releasing their masterpiece, the band that was somehow more than just a band to its fans-closer to equipment for living-was no longer?

Ronen Givony's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is an extended tribute in the spirit of Nicholson Baker's U & I: a passionate, highly personal, and occasionally obsessive study of one of the great confessional rock albums of the 90s. At the same time, it offers a quizzical look back to the toxic authenticity battles of the decade, ponders what happened to the question of "selling out," and asks whether we today are enriched or impoverished by that debate becoming obsolete.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501323119
• Artikelnr.: 52471723

Autorenporträt

Ronen Givony is the author of 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (or, The Strange Death of Selling Out), part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series. He is the founder of New York's Wordless Music series and orchestra (wordlessmusic.org) - which the Village Voice named the city's "Best Moderately Snooty Concert Series" - and a contributor of liner notes for Nonesuch, Constellation, Thrill Jockey, and Temporary Residence. A native of South Florida, he has worked as a producer for concert venues and music festivals in the US and abroad.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1: Rainy Days Drop Boyish Wonder 2: How Can I Do This Better?
3: The Clarity of Cal to Break Your Heart 4: These Things Go Wrong So Often
5: This Is All We Want from Line 6: Our Enemies Will Laugh and Be Pointing
7: Selling Kids to Other Kids 8: It's a Long Way Down Again 9: People from
Bands and Labels. The Good Ones Postscript: Hey, I Remember That Day
Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes