Product Description: New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture.

Product Description: Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats―and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life...read more

Product Description: Cover worn, foxing to tanned page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Product Description: This is the first book to offer a full account of Byrne's sprawling artistic portfolio. The account of Byrne's career, while told in roughly chronological order, is ordered by choosing a specific abstract approach, or a combination of two approaches, for each chapter, discussing the parallels and contradictions between such approaches to benefit the interpretation of Byrne's art...read more

Product Description: An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished a triumphant world reunion tour in 2008...read more

Product Description: A Henri Castang Mystery - A rich aristocrat is found murdered and Henri Castang is called in to investigate. What he reveals is a startling series of discoveries. The murdered woman, Madame Lecat kept herself occupied with drink, cocaine and affairs of the heart...read more

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