When Surface Was Depth

de Michael Bracewell

"Through funny, engaging, and occasionally devastating essays about his experience in the thick of the music and art scene of the 1990's, Bracewell tackles a decade where Greed became disguised as "Attitude," where a "cozy, urban feelgood fable" replaced punk, and where the role of anxiety, so intrinsic to the culture and music of the 1980's, was swapped for a shallow "I feel your pain" sensibility."--Jacket.