Migliori Libri di Jon Savage

«Voglio solo continuare a essere così come siamo. Vogliamo suonare quel che ci piace suonare. E quando smetterà di piacerci… Be’, sarà il momento di chiudere la baracca. Sarà la fine.» Così diceva Ian Curtis il 28 febbraio del 1980, nel corso di un’intervista radiofonica. Neanche tre mesi dopo, la fine sarebbe arrivata davvero, per colpa di un suicidio annunciato. La morte di Curtis chiuse la storia dei Joy Division per consegnarli alla leggenda. Una leggenda che ritroviamo intatta in questo libro che Jon Savage ha realizzato raccogliendo e intrecciando trent’anni di confessioni dei protagonisti della scena post-punk: dai membri della band ai gruppi con cui hanno condiviso il palco (Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio…), dal produttore Tony Wilson al grafico Peter Saville, dai fotografi che li hanno immortalati ai tecnici che ne hanno plasmato il suono.

ONE OF DAVID BOWIE’S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM TEENAGE WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR The acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of ‘the teenager’ in 1945, from award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage. ‘One of Britain’s most trusted cultural historians.’ THE FACE Ringing with music, from ragtime to swing, Teenage roams London, New York, Paris and Berlin with hooligans and Apaches; explores free love and eternal youth; meets flappers and zootsuiters, the Bright Young People and the Lost Generation. The stories come fast and furious, comic, poignant, painfully moving; Savage fuses popular culture, politics and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life. ‘Compulsive reading . . . a rich, rewarding book that makes an important contribution to cultural history.’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘The definitive history of youth in revolt.’ ROLLING STONE ‘[Savage] can bring a beguiling blend of gravitas, wit, scholarship, and a slyly appreciative eye for the subversive, to any topic he approaches. Teenage provides a panoramic scope for his talents.’ INDEPENDENT ‘Savage has produced a book that may well change how people think about teenagers.’ GUARDIAN (This book is part of a reissue of Jon Savage’s seminal works: 1966, Teenage, and England’s Dreaming)

In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England’s Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the “definitive history of the English punk movement” (The New York Times). Now, in Teenage, he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental work of cultural investigative reporting. Beginning in 1875 and ending in 1945, when the term “teenage” became an integral part of popular culture, Savage draws widely on film, music, literature high and low, fashion, politics, and art and fuses popular culture and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life.