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If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called 'Britpop', and for disappearing almost without trace shortly after. They made a few good tunes, they did some funny videos, and while they might be National Treasures, they're nothing serious. Are they? This book argues that they should be taken seriously —very seriously indeed. Attempting to wrest Pulp away from the grim jingoistic spectacle of Britpop and the revivals-of-a-revival circuit, this book charts the very strange things that occur in their records, taking us deep into a strange exotic land; a land of acrylics, adultery, architecture, analogue synthesisers and burning class anger. This is book about pop music, but it is mainly a book about sex, the city and class via the 1990s finest British pop group.

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June 16, 2011
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Owen Hatherley is a writer on political aesthetics. He is the author of Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009) and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This book is a small marvel. Even within the most ambiguous cultural flowering, something transcendent is cached. Owen Hatherley knows this. Possessed of an architect's clarity and a modernist's astringent vision, he draws forth the the paradoxical and brilliant core of Britpop, and restores Pulp's contradictory genius to its proper place in history. Behind the Blairite swagger of Cool Britannia and the spackle of commercial spectacle, Hatherley finds the truth of pop culture and social antagonism, entangled with the glory and oddity of Pulp's musical career and evanescent fame. Elegant about the songs, lucid about the band's warped trajectory, and incisive about the politics of daily life coiled within the sound and lyrics and moment, Hatherley chronicles the adventures of the Sheffield gang and their "class war casanova" who came forth as the truth of a deeply false moment, bad faith you could dance to, a dialectical verdict on a singular passage in time. (Joshua Clover) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0056A1HS8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Hunt Publishing (June 16, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 16, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1944 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 135 pages

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Owen Hatherley was born in Southampton, England in 1981. He received a PhD from Birkbeck College in 2011 for the thesis The Political Aesthetics of Americanism, which was published in 2016 as The Chaplin Machine (Pluto Press).

He writes regularly on architecture, culture and politics for Architectural Review, the Guardian, Jacobin and the London Review of Books, among others. He has published the following books: Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon – An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012), A New Kind of Bleak (Verso 2012), Landscapes of Communism (Penguin, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016), Trans-Europe Express (Penguin, 2018), The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space (Repeater, 2018), Soviet Metro Stations (with Christopher Herwig, Fuel, 2019), Red Metropolis (Repeater, 2020), and the forthcoming Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Verso 2021) and Modern Buildings in Britain (Penguin, 2021).

Hatherley is also the editor of The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs (Open House, 2020). He has edited and introduced an updated edition of Ian Nairn's Nairn's Towns (Notting Hill Editions, 2013), written texts for the exhibition Brutalust: Celebrating Post-War Southampton at the K6 Gallery, and introduced William Morris' How I Became A Socialist (Verso, 2020). Between 2006 and 2010 he wrote the blog 'Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy'. He is the culture editor of Tribune.

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James Moy

11 Theses on Pulp

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2021

1 - all rock books have the same narrative of how the band really connects with its fans
2 - all rock books have the same narrative of how the band really was obscure then became famous, because they are brilliant
3 - this is a bourgeois individualist narrative
4 - all rock books try to square this circle
5 - you can't
6 - one good shop steward is worth ten good left wing artists
7 - its more fun to be a left wing artist
8 - jarvis has wasted his charisma making art, instead of doing rank and file work at a regular job
9 - while i like it, and its well intentioned, his art has had a overall quietest effect, by raising a question then resolving it aesthetically
10 - all political rock books flog the idea that the art they are flogging has a magical effect of galvanizing class struggle, so the guys that write them don't have to get a job and be a shop steward
11 - it doesn't

Owen H has only interpreted the pulp... what's the point again?

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Dario Terracotta

Perceptive and Thoughtful - Just like Pulp

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 4, 2013

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As the previous reviewers point out, this is a book for fans but then again this doesn't diminish it's overall strength. In many respects it has much in common with the author's previous works - a vaguely academic tone that takes itself too seriously at times, but showcases an insatiable curiosity that goes to the less popular, more esoteric parts of Pulp's output. It reads like someone with a 1983 copy of the NME in their backpocket grumbling about the world through the prism of some rather excellent, idiosyncratic music. A book for fans of both Pulp and Hatherley, yet certainly not poorer for either. It is just a shame that I can't imagine anyone else reading it. However, I'll still be reading his next book - in paperback.

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Nagihan Haliloglu

A Walk Through Pulp's Songs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 27, 2012

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Any Pulp fan will relish this book if only for the conversation it provides about the lyrics- where else can you get to hear your thoughts echoed back or put in good prose about the wonderful lyrics of Pulp. The introduction is excellent, explaining why/how Pulp was different from other BritPop bands, Hatherley is quite astute in pointing out that they were the only band that had believable female characters and narratives in their songs. It contains the names of various influences in music and film and so opens many other venues to explore.

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Sproutgirl

Uncommonly Good: To the heart of Pulp

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 9, 2013

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A fascinating, insightful and very different take on Pulp; looking more deeply at what Jarvis, his band and their astonishing songs really meant to a whole swathe of people and a whole lost era of pop. Addictive reading if you ever sat on a bus or wandered the streets of your city with Jarvis' simmering, lustful, tragic pop on your Walkman!

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