10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTPUNK»
Discover the use of
postpunk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
postpunk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rip it Up and Start Again:
Postpunk 1978-1984
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length celebration of what happened next: post-punk bands who dedicated themselves to fulfilling punk's unfinished musical revolution. 1978 - 1984 rivals the sixties for the sheer amount of ...
2
Totally Wired:
Postpunk Interviews and Overviews
The book features thirty-two interviews with postpunk’s most innovative personalities—such as Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, and Lydia Lunch—alongside an “overview” section of further reflections from Reynolds on postpunk’s ...
Music. for. a. Concrete. Island: JG. Ballard. and. the. Prefabrication. of. PostPunk.
Jason Heller “Jimmy B was tone deaf. Actually tone deaf,” said Michael Moorcock
in a recent exchange with Adventure Rocketship! He was speaking of the late ...
Jonathan Wright, Lavie Tidhar, Tim Maughan, 2013
4
Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture
While postpunk and new music deny or distrust emotion, their very attempt to
produce an apparatus that does not depend upon such affective codes has
powerful affective consequences (e.g., Talking Heads, Joy Division, Glenn
Branca, etc.).
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Punk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down the Old Plank Road
This 'postpunk'music continued that aspect of punk itself whose ambitionhad
beentosubvert orundo theconventions of the popular music mainstream, rather
than replacing them with a new set of conventions belonging to a punk genre.
6
Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond
However, Simon Reynolds, perhapsthe most authoritativeanalyst of postpunk
and hardly a straightforward supporter oftheband, has arguedthat U2 – whilea
definitive post punk band – differedin vitalrespects fromthe peersitallegedly
pilfered ...
Dr John O'Flynn, Dr Mark Fitzgerald, 2014
7
The Edge of Darkness: Youth Culture Since the 1960s
It draws upon the insights of contemporary goths into the meaning of their
subculture to better understand the relationship between postpunk goth and the
New Right. It argues that postpunk goth's embrace of the Gothic artistic tradition,
which ...
Matthew Paul Becker, 2007
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Combat Rock: A History of Punk (from It's Origins to the ...
While Joy Division were certainly the most famous of the postpunk bands, they
were by no means the only ones. Public Image, Ltd, Johnny Rotten's postSex
Pistols band, had a Jamaican dubinspired postpunk sound. Bands like The Cure
and ...
HistoryCaps, Lora Greene, HistoryCaps, 2012
9
Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture
Hence, by the late 1980s and early 1990s, postpunk youth culture had developed
the distinctly paradoxical and postmodern form of a mainstream avant-garde: a
mass "alternative" for the self-consciously hip." In this commodified but ostensibly
...
Susan Merrill Squier, 2003
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of. the. British. postpunk. implosion. Now. they've. been. found. "When I listen to
the Raincoats, I feel as if I'm a stowaway in an attic... We're together in the same ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTPUNK»
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postpunk is used in the context of the following news items.
Newport Folk Festival Pays Tribute, With a Jolt, to Dylan and Seeger
There was also crisp, throwback soul from Leon Bridges, and prickly, verbose postpunk from Courtney Barnett. And there were collaborations ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
27 Miami Bands We Really Wish Would Get Back Together
Heavily influenced by the postpunk and new-wave scene that was all the rage in the U.K., New York, L.A., and San Francisco, Z-Cars replicated ... «Miami New Times, Jul 15»
Juan MacLean: I wanted a different kind of energy in music
Six Finger Satellite was a postpunk band with a big disco influences, and we used synthesizers. It was a rock band with dance music influences ... «Skiddle.com, Jul 15»
Noel's Straight Hedge: Punk And Hardcore For July Reviewed
Propelled by clean, postpunk-speckled guitar parts, tempo changes are frequently jarring, yet made to work. More contemplative moments ... «The Quietus, Jul 15»
Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles
... under an oppressive afternoon sun, played bruised, slashing postpunk, smeared with deadpan declarations from the frontman Joe Casey. «New York Times, Jul 15»
Not just another '80s night: Mahall's in Lakewood to host New Wave …
But New Wave Rave is a choice dance-a-thon of postpunk, Euro disco and, well, unlikely and cool tunes to dance to. "Our idea of 'new wave' is ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
To be a twit or not to be a twit - that is the question
“They're the epitome of postpunk shoegaze with real elements of darkwave gothcore about them.” The other man replied: “Oh...right... I'm not ... «The Westmorland Gazette, Jul 15»
With Sets by Los Rakas, Astro, and More, Ruido Fest Delivered the …
Spanish tropical postpunk gurus Triangulo de Amor Bizaro, who were visiting the US for the first time, followed shortly after on the Demon Stage ... «Noisey, Jul 15»
happy Bastille Day: Lizzy Mercier Descloux reissues, new Parisian …
France has a long pop history and I put together a Bastille Day mix on Spotify that runs the gamut from '60s ye-ye, to synth-wave and postpunk, ... «Brooklyn Vegan, Jul 15»
New CDs in stores this week
On their first full-length since 1989, the Membranes — one of the UK bands key to postpunk industrial and noise rock in the 1980s — craft a ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul 15»
