The End-Of-The-Century Party: Youth, Pop and the Rise of Madchester

by Steve Redhead

Madchester may have been born at the Ha ienda in the summer of 1988, but the city had been in creative ferment for almost a decade prior to the rise of acid house. The end-of-the-century party is the definitive account of a generational shift in popular music and youth culture, what it meant and what it led to. First published right after the Second Summer of Love, it tells the story of the transition from new pop to the political pop of the mid-1980s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526142759
• ISBN13: 9781526142757
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"