Copendium - An Expedition into the Rock'n'Roll Underworld
Author(s): Julian Cope
Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, "The Copendium" - a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers - takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form a surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik and post-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken word and hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive sequence. "Cope" is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed, passionate, insightful and deeply funny. "The Copendium" is his re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music, and it is set to become required reading. "The Copendium" is unlike anything you have read before.
Product Information
From the visionary musician, antiquarian and musicologist Julian Cope, comes an alternative history of the last six decades of popular music.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 1.409
- : 01 August 2012
- : 248mm X 196mm X 40mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Julian Cope
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 781.64
- : very good
- : 736