A Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the British Music Press from the '60s to the '80s…...

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Mark Sinker

A Hidden Landscape Once a Week

The Unruly Curiosity of the British Music Press from the '60s to the '80s… by those who made...

Mark Sinker

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Strange Attractor Press
26 February 2019

Rock & Pop music; Political ideologies; Press & journalism

Series: A Hidden Landscape Once a Week

An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary from the heyday of British pop music writing.

In its heyday, from the 1960s to the 1980s, the UK music press was the forging ground for a new critical culture, where readers could encounter anything from comics and cult films to new musical forms and radical underground politics. It created an off-mainstream collective cultural commons improvised through a networked subculture of rival weeklies, monthlies, and fanzines, including such titles as NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Record Mirror, Black Echoes, Black Music, Let It Rock, Street Life, Zigzag, and Smash Hits.

This anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary explores how this uncharted space first came about, who put it together, what it achieved, and where it went. Along the way, it unearths the many surprising worlds explored by this network of young anarchists, dreamers, and agitators who dared to take pop culture seriously, and considers what remains of their critical legacy.

Contributors Valerie Wilmer, Charles Shaar Murray, Richard Williams, Penny Reel, Jonh Ingham, Jon Savage, Cynthia Rose, Paul Morley, David Toop, Bob Stanley, Barney Hoskyns, Jonathon Green, Simon Frith, Paul Gilroy, and many others

With cover and illustrations by legendary comics artist Savage Pencil.

Edited by: Mark Sinker
Imprint: Strange Attractor Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 626g
ISBN: 9781907222634
ISBN 10: 1907222634
Series: A Hidden Landscape Once a Week
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 26 February 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Sinker is a music writer, journalist, and former editor of The Wire magazine.

Reviews for A Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the British Music Press from the '60s to the '80s… by those who made it happen

This book is a celebration, a critique, a discussion, a history, a conversation, an intriguing read, and a catalogue of possibilities – what more could you want? —International Times With this volume, [Sinker] celebrates the noise of disagreement and critical tension. His editing and framing of the volume turn it into something more interesting than a simple celebration of some kind of “golden age of music journalism”, because, as he puts it “resurgent gleeful cacophony is much more the reality than nostalgia: a polyglot discourse rude and smart.” —Irish Times Top-notch interviewees, a real delight —MOJO