Michael Bracewell. The Nineties: When Surface was Depth
THE NINETIES. when surface was depth. Michael Bracewell
Contents
ONE Culture-vulturing City Slickers
TWO The Barbarism of the Self-reflecting Sign
THREE Exquisite: The Gentrification of the Avant-garde
FOUR Retro: Running Out of Past
FIVE Post-industrial/Auric Food
Index
Acknowledgments
Also by the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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‘Try writing what you have written in the past tense in the present tense and you will see what I mean. What we have to do is to give back to the past we are writing about its own present tense. We give back to the past its own possibilities, its own ambiguities, its own incapacity to see the consequences of its action. It is only then that we represent what actually happened.’
Professor Greg Dening
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As ever, Devoto’s stance was one of disaffection and dissatisfaction – rejecting the early complacency into which punk rock so readily dropped, prior to becoming little more than a picture postcard parody of itself. With Magazine, he explored the causes of this stance through lyrics and performance at once disturbing and playful, self-aware and endlessly self-questioning.
Musically, Magazine comprised the formidable teaming up of Dave Formula, John McGeoch and the legendary Barry Adamson, whose own solo work would pursue the idea of attempting to solve the case of oneself. In hindsight, Magazine would have found their place in the history of music on the strength of just one of their early recordings, ‘Shot by Both Sides’.
