Faber Book of Pop

Charting the course of pop from its underground origins, through its low- and high-art phases, out to the mainstream, this book takes in fiction, reportage, fashion, art and fantasy, as filtered through pop music. It includes work by authors such as Joe Orton, Roddy Doyle and Malcolm X.

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'A delicious, presumptuous, epic, thali of a book.' Independent'Kureishi and Savage have effectively compiled a radical new testament of Pop.' ObserverThis original collection charts the course of Pop from its underground origins through its low and high art phases to its current omnipresence; it takes in fiction, reportage, fashion, art and fantasy as filtered through Pop music, and includes work by authors such as Joe Orton, Angela Carter and Malcolm X.