Japrocksampler

Author(s): Julian Cope

Music

Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, hip archaeologist and one time frontman of the Teardrop Explodes, follows the runaway underground success of Krautrocksampler, a cult deconstruction of German rock music, with Japrocksampler.

Japrocksampler is a short history of Japanese youth culture in the post-war years. It explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock and roll renegades of the 1960s and '70s, telling the tale of six seminal groups of artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking.

Cope tours regularly and has just brought out a new album, Dark Orgasm. His website, Head Heritage, is widely acknowledged as containing some of the most entertaining and insightful album reviews on the web. Julian's fans (Copeheads) as well as the generally interested reader will lap up this take on the Jap Rock phenomenon.


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Illustrated with seminal photographs and extraordinary Jap Rock album designs Cope's previous book Krautrocksampler sold 13,000 copies in its underground, self-published incarnation Julian Cope's army of fans (Copeheads) will lap up this take on the Jap Rock phenomenon. Cope tours regularly and has brought out a new album, Dark Orgasm

Julian Cope was born in Deri, South Glamorgan, and grew up in Tamworth. After forming a succession of half-groups and writing songs with Ian McCulloch (later of Echo & the Bunnymen), he eventually formed Teardrop Explodes with Gary Dwyer in 1978. He is the author of Krautrocksampler, Megalithic European, The Modern Antiquarian, Head-On and Repossessed. His website, www.headheritage.co.uk, contains some of the most entertaining and insightful album reviews on the web.

General Fields

  • : 9780747593034
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.232
  • : October 2008
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 20mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Julian Cope
  • : Paperback
  • : 1208
  • : English
  • : 781.660952
  • : 304
  • : Rock & pop
  • : Colour Inserts