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Dance Prone
Dance Prone
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Dance Prone is a novel that explores the lives of a post-hardcore Illinois group, Neues Bauen, as they navigate their own small fame and are forever changed by events of hatred and stupidity during their 1985 tour. The book is a raw and raging celebration of music, filled with closely observed details of indie-rock, punk infused performance, the road, and the players' relationship to violence, hate, and peace. Set during both the post-punk period and the present day, Dance Prone was born out of a love for the underground and indie rock scenes of the 1980s and a fascination with their role in the cultural apparatus of memory, social decay, and its reconstruction.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
A raw and raging celebration of music, astounding.
Megan Bradbury
Funny, filthy, erudite, and rude.
Carl Shuker
A magnificent novel.
Alan McMonagle
During their 1985 tour, two events of hatred and stupidity forever change the lives of a band's four members. Neues Bauen, a post-hardcore Illinois group homing in on their own small fame, head-on with frontman Conrad Wells sexually assaulted and guitarist Tone Seburg wounded by gunshot. The band staggers forth into the American landscape, traversing time and investigating each of their relationships with history, memory, authenticity, violence, and revelling in transcendence through the act of art.
With decades passed and compelled by his wife's failing health to track down Tone, Conrad flies to North Africa, where her brother is rumoured to be hiding with a renowned artist from their past. There he instead meets various characters, including his former drummer, Spence. Amongst the sprawl and shout of Morocco, the men attempt to recall what happened to them during their lost years of mental disintegration and emotional poverty.
Dance Prone is a novel of music, ritual, and love. It is live, tense, and corporeal. Full of closely observed details of indie-rock, of punk infused performance, the road, and the players' relationship to violence, hate, and peace.
Set during both the post-punk period and the present day, Dance Prone was born out of a love of the underground and indie rock scenes of the 1980s, a fascination for their role in the cultural apparatus of memory, social decay, and its reconstruction.
Weight: 282g
Dimension: 197 x 344 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509839452
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