Smile if you dare: pointy hats and politics with the pet shop boys, 1993-1994

Submitted by Joseph Hafner on 31 July, 2017 - 18:03

Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Alwakeel, Ramzy

Source:

[Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.] : Read How You Want,, Australia, p.ii, 165 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm. (2016)

ISBN:

9781910924228

Other Number:

oclc: 974882652

Abstract:

<p>"A creative analysis of the band's fifth album Very, it examines topics as diverse as technological paradise, sexual paranoia and representations of class in British pop music. As well as a keen critical edge, itis equipped with an undisguised mad love for the source material, a sense of passionate abandon induced by the tragic/ecstatic synth-pop that pours out of the speakers"--Page 4 of cover.</p>