Punks on Hope
Title | Punks on Hope PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Jenkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain
Title | Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | David Wilkinson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2016-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137497807 |
As the Sex Pistols were breaking up, Britain was entering a new era. Punk’s filth and fury had burned brightly and briefly; soon a new underground offered a more sustained and constructive challenge. As future-focused, independently released singles appeared in the wake of the Sex Pistols, there were high hopes in magazines like NME and the DIY fanzine media spawned by punk. Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain explores how post-punk’s politics developed into the 1980s. Illustrating that the movement’s monochrome gloom was illuminated by residual flickers of countercultural utopianism, it situates post-punk in the ideological crossfire of a key political struggle of the era: a battle over pleasure and freedom between emerging Thatcherism and libertarian, feminist and countercultural movements dating back to the post-war New Left. Case studies on bands including Gang of Four, The Fall and the Slits and labels like Rough Trade move sensitively between close reading, historical context and analysis of who made post-punk and how it was produced and mediated. The book examines, too, how the struggles of post-punk resonate down to the present.
Punk Sociology
Title | Punk Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | D. Beer |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2014-01-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1137371218 |
This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire and invigorate sociology. It uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted and aims to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists at any stage of their careers, from new students to established professors.
Punks and the Postmodern
Title | Punks and the Postmodern PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Mary O'Connor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Punk Crisis
Title | Punk Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond A. Patton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2018-09-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190872373 |
In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle finger. He didn't know it at the time, but the Sex Pistols' reputation had preceded his gesture, as young people in the "Second World" busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw's nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert, which brought together 100,000 "First World" UK punks and "Third World" Caribbean immigrants who contributed their cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War's "worlds". The first global narrative of punk, Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War, blurring the boundaries between East and West, North and South, communism and capitalism through performances of creative dissent. As author Raymond A. Patton argues, punk eroded the boundaries and political categories that defined the Cold War Era, replacing them with a new framework based on identity as conservative or progressive. Through this paradigm shift, punk unwittingly ushered in a new era of global neoliberalism.
Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism
Title | Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Nehring |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 1997-03-20 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1452249695 |
The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.
What Is Post-Punk?
Title | What Is Post-Punk? PDF eBook |
Author | Mimi Haddon |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2023-02-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0472039210 |
Is post-punk a genre? Where did it come from? And what does it mean?