Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 442 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 442 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
ISBN: 978-1-137-49779-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface.- 1 Introduction: Shake Your Cosy Attitudes.- 2 Post-Punk and the Politics of Post-War Popular Music.- 3 Post-Punk, Thatcherism and the Libertarian Left.- 4 Is Natural In It? Radical Theory and Educational Capital.- 5 The Politics of the Post-Punk Working Class Autodidact.- 6 Desires Bound With Briars: Freedom, Pleasure and Feminism.- 7 Agents of Change: Post-Punk and the Present.
