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"A provocative and funny look at an important turning point in modern literature. Just when you thought DIY was DOA. Don't miss." - iD
Steve Redhead interviews Sarah Champion in Repetitive Beat Generation. The book collects together a series of compelling and illuminating interviews he has conducted with some of the most influential and popular young writers [and a couple of editors!] who have emerged in the Nineties.
The common denominator here is that all are inspired as much by music and popular culture as by literature. The interviews reveal the deep influence that music — particularly rave and dance culture, but also the earlier ethos of punk rock — has had on many of these writers.
Redhead probes beneath the surface of this end-of-the-century cultural cross-fertilisation and gives a unique insight into the writers that he has dubbed "the repetitive beat generation".
Repetitive Beat Generation contains interviews with exciting and influential big-name Nineties authors and editors such as Irvine Welsh, Roddy Doyle, Alan Warner, John King, Jeff Noon, Nicholas Blincoe, Kevin Williamson, Gordon Legge, Emer Martin, Sarah Champion, Elaine Palmer, Toni Davidson, Duncan McLean, Laua Hird and Mike McCormack.
"With intriguing insights, Redhead's collection is a think tank of opinion on the importance of culture and music in modern alternative writing." The Latest
"a thought-provoking read" The Face
"An academic work with bolt-on extras, but often offering intriguing fare" Select
"The authors who most significantly influenced the literature of the 1990s took their inspiration as much from pop music and pop culture as from any literary tradition...their views on the cultures which spawned their work cannot fail to interest." The Big Issue
"It's an energising collection with a real sense of its time, of being at the heart of a scene grounded in the real world." Independent on Sunday
"Redhead's gentle interviewing technique proves to be a winner: he manages to unearth information more aggressive hacks could not." The Times
"A much needed survey. Inevitably, a survey as ambitious as this is bound to find itself spilling over the edges in these 14 accounts which give the Repetitive Beat Generation its fascination and, indirectly, its best qualification to stand as an accurate group portrait.." Michael Bracewell, The Independent
"Lively and engaging" Jockey Slut