Love Rock Revolution K Records and the Rise of Independent Music

Name: Love Rock Revolution K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
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ISBN: 9781570618222

ISBN-10: 1570618224

ISBN-13: 9781570618222

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mark Baumgarten

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Punk isn't a sound; it's an idea. That is the lesson that Calvin Johnson took from the '70s and brought into the '80s, when he created K Records, a modest cassette-only record label that would become one of the most transformative engines of underground culture in the twentieth century. Here is the first book to tell the story of K Records, the Olympia, Washington, record label that became one of the most influential engines in the international underground music movement of the '80s.Thirty years ago, a teenager named Calvin Johnson started a record label that would change the world of music with a revolutionary manifesto and a love of rock and roll.Love Rock Revolutiontells the whole…

Book details

List price: $20.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Publication date: 7/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.49" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Mark Baumgarten is a Seattle-based music writer. Mark serves as the editor-at-large forCity Arts Magazine, and was formerly the music editor forWilliamette Weekin Portland, Oregon. His work has been featured inSeattle Weekly,Twin Cities Metropolitan,Lost Cause, andSound Magazine.Mark received an honorary mention inDe Capo's Best Music Writing 2009for his profile of The Dandy Warhols' lead singer, Courtney Taylor Taylor. The author lives in Seattle, WA.



What I Learned in Olympia: A Foreword



Introduction



Youth



Revolution Come and Gone



Get In


Discography


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index