Butt No Machos or Pop Stars

When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2323-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

Gavin Butt tells the story of the post-punk scene in the northern English city of Leeds, showing how bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget drew on their university art school education to push the boundaries of pop music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butt, Gavin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Class Acts ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Art School Dance Goes On 1
Part I. Avant-Garde and Punk
1. Beginning at a Dead End 23
2. Anarchy at the Poly 56
Part II. Forming a Band
3. Punk Bohemians 75
4. Debating Society 105
5. Why Theory? 126
6. “No Machos or Pop-Stars Please” 146
7. Electric Shock 171
8. Rehearsals for the Mutant Disco 198
Epilogue: The Limits of Experiment—1981 and After 225
Notes 245
Discography 267
Bibliography 271
Index 283

Über Autor(innen)

Gavin Butt is Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University, author of Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Post-Punk Then and Now.