Copendium: An Expedition into the Rock 'n' Roll Underworld

By Julian Cope

Book Overview

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. Copendium is his re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music, and it is set to become required reading.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571270344
• ISBN13: 9780571270347
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Faber & Faber Social
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 2.0" x 6.1"