Hungry Beat

The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)

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Douglas MacIntyre

▪Grant McPhee

Verlag:

White Rabbit

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35165369

EAN: 9781399600255

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Fr, 25.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 25.25

Beschreibung

'Hungry Beat. is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story and lick their wounds' Ian Rankin. The immense cultural contribution made by two maverick Scottish independent music labels, Fast Product and Postcard, cannot be underestimated. Bob Last and Hilary Morrison in Edinburgh, followed by Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins in Glasgow helped to create a confidence in being Scottish that hitherto had not existed in pop music (or the arts in general in Scotland). Their fierce independent spirit stamped a mark of quality and intelligence on everything they achieved, as did their role in the emergence of regional independent labels and cultural agitators, such as Rough Trade, Factory and Zoo. Hungry Beat. is a definitive oral history of these labels and the Scottish post-punk period. Covering the period 1977-1984, and built on interviews for Grant McPhee's Big Gold Dream. film with Last, Hilary Morrison, Paul Morley and members of The Human League, Scars, The Mekons, Fire Engines, Josef K, Aztec Camera, The Go-Betweens and The Bluebells, Hungry Beat. offers a comprehensive overview of one of the most important periods of Scottish cultural output and the two labels that changed the landscape of British music.

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Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Douglas MacIntyre
Grant McPhee

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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