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Trouble Bored
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Matthew Ryan Lowery; Cover design or artwork by Scott White
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The Hard Times: The First 40 Years is the first book from The Hard
Times.net, the Internet's favourite music satire site. Often
referred to as "The Onion for punk rock," the site has developed a
sizable, devoted following for its razor-sharp takes on underground
music and alternative culture. And with headlines like "Man
Magically Transforms into Music Historian While Talking to Women"
and "Pretentious Friend Only Listens to Podcasts on Vinyl," you
don't have to be a punk rock diehard to appreciate their hilarious
commentary. Now, in this 'zine-style "historical retrospective,"
the writers behind the site document its development alongside the
rise of punk rock, with original articles from their 'archives'
commenting upon '70s, '80s, and '90s punk, and site-specific fan
favourites from the aughts-onward. With its unique aesthetic and
laugh-out-loud humour, The Hard Times will be the perfect gift book
for music nerds and pop culture devotees everywhere.
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.
For centuries many have pondered the prospect of an afterlife and
feared what came to be known as 'hell'. In the near future, we map
the elusive 'dark matter' around us, only to find out that it is
hell itself, and it is very real... 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? See why this was voted
as one of Den of Geek UK's Top Books of 2019. Little can prepare
you for this spiritually-charged, cyber-noir thrill ride.
In December 1976, a coach drove off down a London street. On board
were the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Heartbreakers and their
respective management, while The Damned, who were also on the bill,
were travelling separately. The 'Anarchy in the UK Tour' should
have been just another rock 'n' roll tour, and surely would have
been, had it not been for the Sex Pistols' anarchic antics on the
Today show two days earlier. What should have been an
inconsequential three-minute interview to hopefully plug the new
single, and the accompanying promotional tour, descended into farce
when the show's host Bill Grundy goaded the Sex Pistols' guitarist
Steve Jones into saying something outrageous? Author Mick O Shea
has interviewed members of the band's involved, managers, roadies
and audience members to tell the story of why this was such an
important tour. Explains why many local councils banned the tour
resulting in only seven out of a scheduled twenty gigs taking
place. One London councilor stated: "Most of these groups would be
vastly improved by sudden death" The book is also an examination of
punk rock's impact on the nation in the Seventies. Illustrated
throughout with rare photographs and memorabilia.
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Trouble Bored
(Hardcover)
Matthew Ryan Lowery; Cover design or artwork by Scott White
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Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly
Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a
transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked
experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel,
lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this
book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the
rebellious, feminist Punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s,
tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their
performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick,
Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie
Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful,
deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist
femininity, creating a new "Punk audio visual aesthetic". A vital
aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture,
Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of
these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries
worked in a pre-digital, analogue modality that nevertheless
influenced the emergent digital audio visual culture of the 1990s
and 2000s.
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Riot Days
(Paperback)
Maria Alyokhina
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From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria
Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest,
trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what
she believed in. 'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things
I've read in years. Couldn't put it down. This book is freedom'
Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick 'A women's prison memoir like no
other! One tough cookie!' @MargaretAtwood 'Once you begin reading,
you are completely disarmed, unable to put it down until the last
page' Marina Abramovic People who believe in freedom and democracy
think it will exist forever. That is a mistake. What happened in
Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere. When I was
jailed for political protest, I learned that prison doesn't just
teach you to follow the rules. It teaches you to think that you can
never break them. It's inevitable that the prison gates will open
at some point. But this doesn't mean that you leave the 'prisoner'
category and go straight into the category of 'the free'. Freedom
does not exist unless you fight for it every day. This is the story
about how I made a choice.
Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980
and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover,
disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews
and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into
the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated to cult status among
post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to
the band's singular approach and response to punk rock. Instead of
employing overt political ideology and abrasive sounds to rebel
against the status quo, Young Marble Giants filled their songs with
restraint, ambiguity, and silence. The trio opened up their music
to new sounds and ideas that redefined punk's rules of rebellion.
Where did their rebellious ideas and impulses come from? By tracing
Colossal Youth's artistic origins from Ancient Greece to the
20th-century avant-garde, Michael Blair and Joe Bucciero uncover
the intricacies of Young Marble Giants' idiosyncratic take on music
in the post-punk age. Emerging from the gaps in between the notes
are new ways of hearing the history of punk, the political and
economic turbulence of the late 1970s, and the world that surrounds
us right now.
In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her
then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed
appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British
indie music scene and its signature look-slender bodies clad in
skinny jeans-to the center of popular fashion. Using this
fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie
narrates indie's evolution: from a 1980s British music subculture
into a 21st-century international fashion phenomenon. It explores
the lucrative transformation of indie style, first into high
concept menswear and later into "festival fashion"-a womenswear
phenomenon that remade what indie looked like and provided a
launching point to reimagine who the ideal subject of indie could
be. Fashioning Indie is essential reading for academic and popular
audiences, offering an original account of what happens when a
subculture is incorporated into the commercial fashion system. As
the music and fashions of festivals face increasing scrutiny in
debates about diversity and inclusion, and the transformations of
indie style coincide with the global expansion of the second-hand
retail sector, the book offers also essential insights into the
broader culture of popular fashion in the 21st century and the
values that inform it.
Christian punk is a surprisingly successful musical subculture and
a fascinating expression of American evangelicalism. Situating
Christian punk within the modern history of Christianity and the
rapidly changing culture of spirituality and secularity, this book
illustrates how Christian punk continues punk's autonomous and
oppositional creative practices, but from within a typically
traditional evangelical morality. Analyzing straight edge Christian
abstinence and punk-friendly churches, this book also focuses on
gender performance within a subculture dominated by young men in a
time of contested gender roles and ideologies. Critically-minded
and rich in ethnographic data and insider perspectives, Christian
Punk will engage scholars of contemporary evangelicalism, religion
and popular music, and punk and all its related subcultures.
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