Simon Reynolds

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Simon Reynolds in Marburg in January 2008

Simon Reynolds (* 1963 in London , Great Britain) is a British cultural journalist and non-fiction author who lives in New York City . He is best known for his critically acclaimed 600-page work on the post-punk era Rip It Up And Start Again .

Life

Reynolds was editor of the English music magazine Melody Maker from 1986 to 1990 . Reynolds has lived as a features and music journalist in his adopted home Manhattan since 1994 . He writes for the New York Times , Village Voice , Spin , The Guardian , Rolling Stone and The Wire , among others . Reynolds has been running his Blissblog since the end of 2002 . In January 2008 Reynolds went on a book tour through Germany.

The endless succession of revivals and retro fashions, Reynolds considers this aesthetic standstill to be a sign of decadence. In 2012 he made a book out of it: Retromania: Why Pop Can't Forget its Past .

Publicist Simon Reynolds during a lecture in Mannheim (2019)

Works (selection)

  • Sex Revolts: Gender, Rock and Rebellion (together with Joy Press). Translated from the English by Jan-Niklas Jäger. Ventil-Verlag, Mainz 2020, ISBN 978-3-9557-5110-4
    • Original edition: The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'N' Roll , 1995
  • Retromania: Why pop can't let go of its past . Translated from the English by Chris Wilpert. Ventil-Verlag, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-931555-29-0
    • Original edition: Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past , 2011
  • Rip It Up And Start Again - Throw it all down and start again (Postpunk 1978-1984) . Translated from the English by Conny Lösch . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-270-6
    • Original edition: Rip It Up And Start Again - Post Punk 1978-1984 , 2005
  • Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture in America , 1998
  • The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion & Rock'n'Roll , 1995
  • Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock , 1990

Web links

References

  1. ↑ Review notes on Rip It Up And Start Again at perlentaucher.de
  2. ↑ Simon Reynolds on a reading tour in the G-Werk (marburg-news.de) ( memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from January 18, 2008
  3. ↑ Why our music sounds so yesterday , Deutschlandradio Kultur from December 10, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Reynolds, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British music journalist and non-fiction essayist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH London