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Jon Savage

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September 02, 1953

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Jon Savage (born Jonathan Malcolm Sage) is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his definitive history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming (1991). ...more

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	England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond 4.06 avg rating — 7,351 ratings — published 1991 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History 4.32 avg rating — 1,249 ratings — published 2019 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1966: The Year the Decade Exploded 4.09 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 3.93 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream 3.89 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The England's Dreaming Tapes: The Essential Companion to England's Dreaming, the Seminal History of Punk 4.22 avg rating — 97 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Punk: An Aesthetic by Jon Savage, William Gibson, Gee Vaucher 4.08 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Travel: From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana: Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96 3.63 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kinks: The Official Biography 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Machine Soul: une Histoire De La Techno 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“in 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented “a second birth.”
― Jon Savage, Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945

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“By the time he found fame with his syndicated television show in 1953, he had refined his act down to an art, involving his family, talking to the audience through the camera and embracing a dizzying array of costume changes and dramatic gestures.”
― Jon Savage, The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream

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“. In the May 1955 cover story, ‘The Margin of Masculinity’, James Douglas Margin evolved his ‘Theory of Masculine Deportment’, in detailed phrases that could have come straight out of Henry Willson’s remodelling of Rock Hudson. Setting the tale in a gay bar, the writer gave programmatic instructions to a fictional friend, Johnnie. In order to hide his homosexuality, Johnnie was advised ‘to avoid the limp wrist as you would the plague’, while cultivating a firm handshake and watching out for any tendency of the little fingers to wave about.”
― Jon Savage, The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream

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