Jon Savage

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Jon Savage, 2009 on a book tour in Germany

Jon Savage (actually Jonathon Sage, * 1953 in London ) is a British pop music journalist and publicist. He was best known for his highly acclaimed books England's Dreaming from 1991 (German 2001) and Teenage from 2007 (German 2008).

Life and work

Sage grew up as the son of a businessman in the British capital, London. He graduated from Cambridge University . Age of 23 he gave a private Punk - Fanzine out "London's Outrage". He worked as a journalist for the music magazines Sounds and New Musical Express from 1977 until the 1980s. From 1979 he worked for the rock music journal Melody Maker . During the 1980s, Savage wrote regularly as a pop music critic for the respected British daily newspapers The Observer and the New Statesman .

His breakthrough as a professional author marked his book England's Dreaming in 1991. Four years later, in 1995, the BBC produced a documentary "Punk and the Pistols" based on Savage's book. In 2001 there was a revised new edition. Savage published more journalistic in the music magazine Mojo and The Observer Music Monthly . Together with Hanif Kureishi , he published the pop culture encyclopedia The Faber Book of Pop in 1995. His monograph Time Travel: Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1976-96 appeared a year later. In it he analyzed the pop cultural events in the two decades since the emergence of the punk and new wave movements.

His next, highly regarded book, which earned him the label "Pophistoriker", was Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture , which originally appeared in 2007, with a German translation a year later. In years of source work, he has evaluated archives accessible to him (linguistically) from various Central and Western European nations and the USA. The echo of the reviews of this pioneering achievement was remarkable and international.

In addition to his journalistic contributions, books, and essays, Savage has also made a name for itself through a number of expertly compiled pop-historical CD compilations.

Jon Savage lives and works in Northern Wales (2009).

Works

  • The Kinks : The Official Biography Publisher Faber & Faber Ltd, London 1984 ISBN 9780571133796
  • England's Dreaming - Sex Pistols and Punk Rock , Faber & Faber Ltd, 1991. ISBN 9780571139750
    • dt .: England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock Ed. Tiamat, Berlin 2001
  • The Faber Book of Pop Faber & Faber Ltd, London 1995 (with Hanif Kureishi)
  • Time Travel: Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1976-96 , Chatto and Windus, 1996, 424 pp. ISBN 978-0701163600
    • US: Time Travel: From the "Sex Pistols" to "Nirvana" - Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96 , Vintage New Ed edition, 1997, 424 pp. ISBN 978-0099588719
  • Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture , Viking Books, 2007. ISBN 9780670038374
    • German: Teenage: the invention of youth (1875-1945) Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2008. 522 pp. ISBN 978-3-593-38514-3

Filmography

  • Joy Division, A Documentary , directed by Grant Gee, written by Jon Savage (2007).

Pop music history compilations

  • Teenage - The Creation of Youth: 1911-1946 ( Trikont , Munich 2009)
  • Dreams Come True - classic wave electro 1982-8799 (Domino Records 2008)
  • Queer Noises - From the Closet to the Charts (Trikont 2006)
  • Meridian 1970 (Forever Heavenly 2005)
  • England's Dreaming (Trikont 2004)
  • Black Hole - Californian Punk 1977-1980 (Domino 2010)

Web links

Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ WOZ of September 18, 2008: Jon Savage: Being Different From Your Parents - Interview
  2. ↑ taz from Sept. 19, 2008: Review of "Teenage: the invention of youth (1875 - 1945)"
  3. ↑ NZZ of September 26, 2008: A feeling of boundless present
  4. ^ Der Tagesspiegel of February 16, 2009: Confusion and megalomania: Jon Savage on the invention of youth. A search for traces of the origins of youth culture .
  5. ↑ Spiegel online from March 6, 2009: POP CHRONIST JON SAVAGE Music from the inner hard drive
  6. ↑ The author's own statements during his reading tour in March 2009
  7. ^ The Guardian of May 10, 2008: Screenwriter for Joy Division documentary
  8. ↑ Queer Noises Review
personal data
SURNAME Savage, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Say, Jonathon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rock music journalist, essayist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH London