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Popular music -- 1981-1990 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.
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Matos, Michaelangelo.
Popular music -- 1981-1990 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.
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Can't slow down :
how
1984
became
pop
's
blockbuster
year
/ Michaelangelo Matos.
by
Matos, Michaelangelo.
Hachette Books, 2020.
Call #:
781.6409 M433c
Subjects
Popular music -- 1981-1990 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.
ISBN:
9780306903373 (hc)
Alternate title:
Cannot slow down :
how
1984
became
pop
's
blockbuster
year
How
1984
became
pop
's
blockbuster
year
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xi, 468 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"520 The definitive account of
pop
music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hiphop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984-pop music's greatest
year
. From 'Thriller' to 'Purple Rain,' 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' to 'Like a Virgin,' 'Hello' to 'Against All Odds,' 'Sister Christian' to 'Love Is a Battlefield,' 'What'
s
Love Got to Do with It' to 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' they continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves-until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties
pop
and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.
S
.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'
s
Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American
pop
, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid trip to a thrilling, turbulent time when
pop
was remaking itself, and the culture at large, one hit at a time. Let'
s
go crazy!
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