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Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records

Autor Michael White
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 noi 2015
From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as "indie-pop," "C86," "cutie" and "twee") whose moment had passed. Yet now, more than 20 years after its founders symbolically "destroyed" it, Sarah is among the most passionately fetishized record labels of all time. Its rare releases command hundreds of dollars, devotees around the world hungrily seek out any information they can find about its poorly documented history, and young musicians-some of them not yet born when Sarah shut down-claim its bands (such as Blueboy, the Field Mice, Heavenly, and the Wake) as major influences.Featuring dozens of exclusive interviews with the music-makers, producers, writers and assorted eyewitnesses who played a part in Sarah's eight-year odyssey, Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records is the first authorised biography of an unlikely cult legend.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781628922189
ISBN-10: 1628922184
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 38 mono images;19 color images in 16 page color plate section.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

It is the first and only biography of Sarah Records, and is being written with the full blessing and participation of Sarah's founders and artists

Notă biografică

Michael White has been writing about popular and underground music, for publications in his native Canada and internationally, for 20 years.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Songs of Innocence and Inexperience: The Roots of SarahChapter Two: "Let's Just Communicate!": The 1980s Fanzine UndergroundChapter Three: "How Much Do One Thousand Flexidiscs Weigh?": When Matt Met ClareChapter Four: "Come to My World": The Sea Urchins and the Beginning of SarahChapter Five: "A Constant Source of Bemusement and Wonder": The OrchidsChapter Six: "Another Fucking Harvey Band": The Ubiquitous Harvey WilliamsChapter Seven: "Sarah Records Unequivocally Supports a Fully Integrated Light-Rail Rapid-Transit System for the Greater Bristol Area": Expressions of Civic PrideChapter Eight: "A Diary of Sorts": The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library, and the Quicksilver Bobby WrattenChapter Nine: "I Sometimes Feel So Lost": BrighterChapter Ten: Safe Harbour: The Wake and The Hit ParadeChapter Eleven: "I Am Telling You Because You Are Far Away": Internationalism and Sarah's Written CommuniquésChapter Twelve: "Atta Girl": Heavenly, Riot Grrrl and FeminismChapter Thirteen: Sadness is Unisex": Blueboy and "the Best Album" Sarah ReleasedChapter Fourteen: An Economy of Ambition: Sarah's Short-Term VisitorsChapter Fifteen: "We Had an Outsider's Perspective": Sarah's Foreign VisitorsChapter Sixteen: "A Day for Destroying Things.": The End of SarahChapter Seventeen: The Afterlife of SarahThe Sarah DiscographyIndex

Recenzii

Fascinating ... [A] detailed history of the cult Bristol-based indie ... [White] puts forward a strong case for its worth.
White's book offers a series of discrete essays, each one covering a different theme or particular band . [Its] intriguing chapters explore the non-musical idiosyncrasies that made Sarah unique.
Michael White expertly puts Sarah into context with a whirlwind tour of early indie-pop . This interesting read [is] very welcome.
A beautiful document in itself [and a 'Top Read of 2015'].
Combining a zine-like zeal for its subjects with a thorough examination of the cultural context that made them special, the interconnected narratives of Popkiss form an IRL internet for people who believe a record is something to hold, cherish and scratch rather than click into the cloud. This is an essential archive of a pivotal moment in UK pop history that was in danger of fading from our collective pre-web memory.
More than the labels that inspired its existence, Sarah Records came to define the indie-pop aesthetic. A great record label needs a great biography, and it's hard to think of anyone who could tell the Sarah story as empathetically as Michael White. Popkiss is a triumph.
It's hard to think of another record company that provoked such strong emotions as Sarah: the label, and the music it released, inspired either undying devotion or implacable loathing. Michael White's book shines a brilliant light on a strange and unique moment in indie history, illuminating a fascinating, lost world of pop, politics, passion and postal orders.
White's history is a much-needed document, fleshing out details and explanation for a label and 'scene' that has meant so much to so many yet not received the literary attention it deserves . Popkiss is immensely readable and incredibly successful in uncovering the secrets of a record label that was timeless in its output, limited in its lifespan, and for the most part known to only a select few record-philes during its duration. If you were in the know, Popkiss will help you discover Sarah anew. If you weren't, you will find endless rabbit holes down which to venture. Either way, you'll come away pleased.