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No Machos or Pop Stars - When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Paperback)
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No Machos or Pop Stars - When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Paperback)
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After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern
English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and
synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and
Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these
artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed
possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the
record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art
punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and
took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding
electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the
fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how
England's state-funded education policy brought together art
students from different social classes to create a fertile ground
for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with
band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the
groups who wanted to dismantle both art world and music industry
hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their
stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional
music scene of lasting international significance.
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