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Damaged - Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (Paperback): Evan Rapport Damaged - Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (Paperback)
Evan Rapport
R1,198 Discovery Miles 11 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America's cities and suburbs in the postwar era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is captured in historical documents and revealed through musical analysis.

Shape Note Singing (Paperback): Lauren Turner Shape Note Singing (Paperback)
Lauren Turner
R378 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Damaged - Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (Hardcover): Evan Rapport Damaged - Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (Hardcover)
Evan Rapport
R3,758 R2,837 Discovery Miles 28 370 Save R921 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America's cities and suburbs in the postwar era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is captured in historical documents and revealed through musical analysis.

Music is Power - Popular Songs, Social Justice and the Will to Change (Hardcover): Brad Schreiber Music is Power - Popular Songs, Social Justice and the Will to Change (Hardcover)
Brad Schreiber
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - 20th Anniversary Edition: The History of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (Paperback): Anthony... Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - 20th Anniversary Edition: The History of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (Paperback)
Anthony Davie
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
4play - A Punk Rock Autobiography (Paperback): Trevor Aindow 4play - A Punk Rock Autobiography (Paperback)
Trevor Aindow
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bi-Cultural - Living and Leaving The World of Illusions (Paperback): Mus Zoser Ankh Hat Bi-Cultural - Living and Leaving The World of Illusions (Paperback)
Mus Zoser Ankh Hat
R360 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Punk Coloring Book (Paperback): Gary Ellis Punk Coloring Book (Paperback)
Gary Ellis
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This is Joe Public Speaking - The Clash, as told by the fans (Paperback): Anthony Davie This is Joe Public Speaking - The Clash, as told by the fans (Paperback)
Anthony Davie
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No Weakeners (Paperback): Tim Wells No Weakeners (Paperback)
Tim Wells
R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Complete Darkness (Paperback): Matt Adcock Complete Darkness (Paperback)
Matt Adcock
R351 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the satanic President Razour attempts to bring forward Armageddon to prevent humanity repenting, the fate of us all rests in the hands of Cleric20, a hedonistic loner with a chequered past, and his robot sidekick, GiX. An action-packed literary shock to the senses that mixes flights of comic fantasy with bouts of brutal violence. Mankind's only hope seems to be having a very bad day. Can Cleric20 halt Razour's devilish plans after an experimental bioweapon deployed to kill him accidentally gives him superpowers? Has the Devil inadvertently created a hero who could actually stop him? Little can prepare you for this spiritually-charged, cyber-noir thrill ride.

Hit Factories - A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop (Hardcover): Karl Whitney Hit Factories - A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop (Hardcover)
Karl Whitney 1
R630 R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Save R414 (66%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

After discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, Karl Whitney embarks upon a journey to explore the industrial cities of British pop music. Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Coventry, Bristol: at various points in the past these cities have all had distinctive and highly identifiable sounds. But how did this happen? What circumstances enabled those sounds to emerge? How did each particular city - its history, its physical form, its accent - influence its music? How were these cities and their music different from each other? And what did they have in common? Hit Factories tells the story of British pop through the cities that shaped it, tracking down the places where music was performed, recorded and sold, and the people - the performers, entrepreneurs, songwriters, producers and fans - who made it all happen. From the venues and recording studios that occupied disused cinemas, churches and abandoned factories to the terraced houses and back rooms of pubs where bands first rehearsed, the terrain of British pop can be retraced with a map in hand and a head filled with music and its many myths.

Out of Step - Washington D.C. Punk Interviews (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Out of Step - Washington D.C. Punk Interviews (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rock'n'roll Decontrol - A Punk PIC and Flyer Collection, Vol. 2 (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Rock'n'roll Decontrol - A Punk PIC and Flyer Collection, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
"Do You Have a Band?" - Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City (Hardcover): Daniel Kane "Do You Have a Band?" - Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City (Hardcover)
Daniel Kane
R2,162 Discovery Miles 21 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem. Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant, and, most surprisingly and complexly, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Ted Berrigan, John Giorno, and Dennis Cooper, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City.

Shards of Law (Paperback): L E Dereksen Shards of Law (Paperback)
L E Dereksen
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Clash Takes on the World - Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters (Paperback): Samuel Cohen, James Peacock The Clash Takes on the World - Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters (Paperback)
Samuel Cohen, James Peacock
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be "bored with the USA," but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as "Hate and War" were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin's reggae hit "Police and Thieves" showed that the band's musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat Rock saw them experimenting with a huge range of musical genres, lyrical themes and visual aesthetics. The Clash Takes on the World explores the transnational aspects of The Clash's music, lyrics and politics, and it does so from a truly transnational perspective. It brings together literary scholars, historians, media theorists, musicologists, social activists and geographers from Europe and the US, and applies a range of critical approaches to The Clash's work in order to tackle a number of key questions: How should we interpret their negotiations with reggae music and culture? How did The Clash respond to the specific socio-political issues of their time, such as the economic recession, the Reagan-Thatcher era and burgeoning neoliberalism, and international conflicts in Nicaragua and the Falkland Islands? How did they reconcile their anti-capitalist stance with their own success and status as a global commodity? And how did their avowedly inclusive, multicultural stance, reflected in their musical diversity, square with the experience of watching the band in performance? The Clash Takes on the World is essential reading for scholars, students and general readers interested in a band whose popularity endures.

Puncture - the first 6 issues (Paperback): Patty Stirling Puncture - the first 6 issues (Paperback)
Patty Stirling; Preface by J Neo Marvin; Katherine Spielmann
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Punk Chronicles - Interviews From the Underground (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Punk Chronicles - Interviews From the Underground (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The top 43 punk albums 2018 - the essential guide to the best punk music of the year (Paperback): Gary Miller The top 43 punk albums 2018 - the essential guide to the best punk music of the year (Paperback)
Gary Miller
R297 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R16 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beneath the Shadows of T.S.O.L. (Paperback): Welly Artcore, David A. Ensminger Beneath the Shadows of T.S.O.L. (Paperback)
Welly Artcore, David A. Ensminger
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rock'n'Roll Decontrol - A Punk Pic and Flyer Collection (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Rock'n'Roll Decontrol - A Punk Pic and Flyer Collection (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Poems from San Francisco (Paperback): Cole Feldman Poems from San Francisco (Paperback)
Cole Feldman
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond No Future - Cultures of German Punk (Paperback): Mirko M. Hall, Seth Howes, Cyrus M. Shahan Beyond No Future - Cultures of German Punk (Paperback)
Mirko M. Hall, Seth Howes, Cyrus M. Shahan
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its "no future" sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German urban landscapes, and in German youth culture. Beyond No Future collects innovative, methodologically diverse scholarly contributions on the life and legacy of these cultures. Focusing on punk politics and aesthetics in order to ask broader questions about German nationhood(s) in a period of rapid transition, this text offers a unique view of the decade bookended by the "German Autumn" and German unification. Consulting sources both published and unpublished, aesthetic and archival, Beyond No Future's contributors examine German punk's representational strategies, anti-historical consciousness, and refusal of programmatic intervention into contemporary political debates. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the importance of punk culture to historical, political, economic, and cultural developments taking place both in Germany and on a broader transnational scale.

Try This At Home: Adventures in songwriting - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Paperback): Frank Turner Try This At Home: Adventures in songwriting - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Paperback)
Frank Turner 1
R404 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the songs forged in the hedonistic years of the mid-2000s North London scene, the ones perfected in Nashville studios, and everything in between. Some of these songs arrive fully-formed, as if they've always been there, some take graft and endless reworking to find 'the one'. In exploring them all, Turner reflects with eloquence, insight and self-deprecating wit on exactly what it is to be a songwriter. From love songs and break-up songs to political calls-to-arms; songs composed alone in a hotel room or in soundcheck with the Sleeping Souls, this brilliantly written memoir - featuring exclusive photos of handwritten lyrics and more - is a must-have book for FT fans and anyone curious about how to write music.

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