1989 : Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about /

In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "the end of history." Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, pop mu...

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Author / Creator: Clover, Joshua.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • List Of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: The Long 1989
  • Part 1. 1989 (The Unconfined Unreckoned Year)
  • 1. The Bourgeois and the Boulevard
  • Bridge: da inner sound, y'all
  • 2. The Second Summer of Love
  • Bridge: I Was Up Above It
  • 3. Negative Creep
  • Bridge: Just a Stop Down the Line
  • 4. The Billboard Consensus
  • Part 2. "1989" (A Shout In The Street)
  • 5. The Image-Event and the Blind Spot
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index