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My Punk Rock Book (Paperback): Michael Essington My Punk Rock Book (Paperback)
Michael Essington
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blood, Sweat and Fists (Paperback): Weasel Press Blood, Sweat and Fists (Paperback)
Weasel Press; Edited by Weasel; Poetken Jones
R233 R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Save R18 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Out of Step - Washington D.C. Punk Interviews (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Out of Step - Washington D.C. Punk Interviews (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 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
R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Ships in 10 - 15 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
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 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
R1,439 Discovery Miles 14 390 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.

"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
R2,121 Discovery Miles 21 210 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

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
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Puncture - the first 6 issues (Paperback): Patty Stirling Puncture - the first 6 issues (Paperback)
Patty Stirling; Preface by J Neo Marvin; Katherine Spielmann
R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 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
R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 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
R283 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R16 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shards of Law (Paperback): L E Dereksen Shards of Law (Paperback)
L E Dereksen
R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R617 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R406 (66%) Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Poems from San Francisco (Paperback): Cole Feldman Poems from San Francisco (Paperback)
Cole Feldman
R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters from the Relentless Pursuit (Paperback): Christopher Webster Letters from the Relentless Pursuit (Paperback)
Christopher Webster; Designed by Syd Schlemer
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Factory - The Story of the Record Label (Paperback): Mick Middles Factory - The Story of the Record Label (Paperback)
Mick Middles 1
R457 R237 Discovery Miles 2 370 Save R220 (48%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one personality - that of its director, Tony Wilson. At the height of the label's success in the late 1980s, it ran its own club, the legendary Hacienda, had a string of international hit records, and was admired and emulated around the world. But by the 1990s the story had changed. The back catalogue was sold off, top bands New Order and Happy Mondays were in disarray, and the Hacienda was shut down by the police. Critically acclaimed on its original publication in 1996, this book tells the complete story of Factory Records' spectacular history, from the label's birth in 1970s Manchester, through its '80s heyday and '90s demise. Now updated to include new material on the re-emergence of Joy Division, the death of Tony Wilson and the legacy of Factory Records, it draws on exclusive interviews with the major players to give a fascinating insight into the unique personalities and chaotic reality behind one of the UK's most influential and successful independent record labels.

Triptych - Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible [16pt Large Print Edition] (Paperback): Rhian Jones... Triptych - Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible [16pt Large Print Edition] (Paperback)
Rhian Jones Daniel Lukes and Wodtke
R1,186 Discovery Miles 11 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
4play - A Punk Rock Autobiography (Paperback): Trevor Aindow 4play - A Punk Rock Autobiography (Paperback)
Trevor Aindow
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Punk Crisis - The Global Punk Rock Revolution (Paperback): Raymond A. Patton Punk Crisis - The Global Punk Rock Revolution (Paperback)
Raymond A. Patton
R989 Discovery Miles 9 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

anarcho punk music - the band's story behind anarchist punk music (Paperback): Gary Miller anarcho punk music - the band's story behind anarchist punk music (Paperback)
Gary Miller
R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Point of View - Me, New York City and the Punk Scene (Hardcover): Chris Stein Point of View - Me, New York City and the Punk Scene (Hardcover)
Chris Stein
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of new wave, Blondie's Chris Stein. A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of music, Blondie's Chris Stein. For the duration of the 1970s - from his days as a student at the School of Visual Arts through the foundation of the era-defining band Blondie and his subsequent reign as epicenter of punk's golden age - Chris Stein kept an unrivaled photographic record of the downtown New York City scene. Following in the footsteps of the successful book Negative, this spectacular new book presents a more personal and more visceral collection of Stein's photographs of the era. The images presented here take readers from self-portraits in his run-down East-Village apartment to candid photographs of pop-cultural icons of the time and evocative shots of New York City streetscapes in all their most longed-for romance and dereliction. An eclectic cast of cultural characters - from William Burroughs to Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol to Iggy Pop - appear here exactly as they were in the day, juxtaposed with children playing hopscotch on torn-down blocks, riding the graffiti-ridden subway, or cruising the burgeoning clubs of the Bowery. At once a chronicle of one music icon's life among his punk and New-Wave heroes and peers, and a love letter to the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for those scenes, Point of View transports us to another place and time.

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
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 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
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 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.

Alternative Top 50 (Paperback): T.V. Smith Alternative Top 50 (Paperback)
T.V. Smith; Foreword by Henry Rollins; Designed by Andy Vella
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
City Primeval - New York, Berlin, Prague (Paperback): Louis Armand, Robert Carrithers City Primeval - New York, Berlin, Prague (Paperback)
Louis Armand, Robert Carrithers
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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