{"product_id":"devos-freedom-of-choice-9781623563448","title":"Devo's Freedom of Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second LP \u003ci\u003eDuty Now for the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, and now it was go time. Propelled by the new decade's high-tech, free-market, pre-AIDS promise, 1980's \u003ci\u003eFreedom of Choice\u003c\/i\u003e would rocket what Devo co-founder Gerald Casale calls his alternate universe, hermetically sealed, alien band both into the arms of the Earthlings and back to their home planet in one scenic trip. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore an artistic and commercial decline that resulted in a 20-year gap between Devo's last two studio records, \u003ci\u003eFreedom of Choice\u003c\/i\u003e made them curious, insurgent superstars, vindicated but ultimately betrayed by the birth of MTV. Their only platinum album represented the best of their unreplicable code: dead-serious tricksters, embracing conformity in order to destroy it with bullet-proof pop sensibility. Through first-hand accounts from the band and musical analysis set against an examination of new wave's emergence, the first-ever authorized book about Devo (with a foreword by \u003ci\u003ePortlandia's\u003c\/i\u003e Fred Armisen) explores the group's peak of success, when their hermetic seal cracked open to let in mainstream attention, a legion of new Devotees, and plenty of misunderstandings. \u003ci\u003eFreedom of Choice\u003c\/i\u003e was the end of Devo innocence-it turned out to be the high point before the s***storm of a total cultural move to the right, the advent of AIDS, and the press starting to figure Devo out and think they had our number, says Casale. It's where everything changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623563448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.60h x 4.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Evie Nagy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42925120422069,"sku":"9781623563448","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7c4301ce-89cd-42b4-8e35-b37193a67b35.jpg?v=1687845906","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/devos-freedom-of-choice-9781623563448","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}