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White Rabbit signs Jones’ pop culture history of the nineties
White Rabbit has signed a pop culture history of the nineties by Dylan Jones, author of Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics (Faber & Faber) and David Bowie: A Life (Preface Publishing).
Lee Brackstone, publisher at White Rabbit, acquired world rights to Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That from Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown, for publication on 13th October 2022.
The publisher’s synopsis reads: “Not only was the mid-nineties perhaps the last time that rock stars, music journalists and pop consumers held on to a belief in rock’s mystical power, it was a period of huge cultural upheaval – in art, literature, publishing and drugs.
“And it was a period of almost unparalleled hedonism, a time when many people thought they deserved to live the rock and roll lifestyle, when a generation of narcotic omnivores thought they could all be rock stars just by buying a magazine and a copy of ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory’, the second studio album by English rock band Oasis.”
Faster Than a Cannonball is described by the publisher as a cultural swipe of the decade from loungecore to the rise of New Labour, teasing all the relevant artistic strands through interviews with all the main protagonists and exhaustive re-evaluations of the important records of the year, from Radiohead to Pulp to Blur.
Jones, who in the 1980s was one of the first editors of i-D, before becoming a contributing editor of The Face and then the editor of Arena, said: “The nineties are often framed only as a time driven solely by Britpop, but the decade was an intoxicating period of cultural insurrection and social change. It was also the last analogue decade, where the forces of creativity rushed to finish the century in style. In art, music, politics, fashion, media, sport and the cultural world of the underground, the decade easily equalled the sixties in scope and ambition.”
Brackstone said: ‘"With his book on Bowie and Sweet Dreams, his account of the new romantic moment, Dylan Jones proved himself to be a master of the oral history. Faster Than a Cannonball is further evidence that no one is pushing the form further, working it harder, than Dylan.”
