0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music

Buy Now

Punk Aesthetics and New Folk - Way Down the Old Plank Road (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,939
Discovery Miles 49 390
Punk Aesthetics and New Folk - Way Down the Old Plank Road (Hardcover, New Ed): John Encarnacao

Punk Aesthetics and New Folk - Way Down the Old Plank Road (Hardcover, New Ed)

John Encarnacao

Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,939 Discovery Miles 49 390 | Repayment Terms: R463 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who use elements of folk music in contexts that are far from traditional. These (and other) so called 'new folk' artists challenge our notions of 'finished product' through their recordings, intrinsically guided by practices and rhetoric inherited from punk. This book traces a fractured trajectory that includes Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Bob Dylan, psych-folk of the sixties (from Vashti Bunyan to John Fahey), lo-fi and outsider recordings (from Captain Beefheart and The Residents to Jandek, Daniel Johnston and Smog), and recent experimental folk (Animal Collective, Six Organs of Admittance, Charalambides) to contextualise the first substantial consideration of new folk. In the process, Encarnacao reviews the literature on folk and punk to argue that tropes of authenticity, though constructions, carry considerable power in the creation and reception of recorded works. New approaches to music require new analytical tools, and through the analysis of some 50 albums, Encarnacao introduces the categories of labyrinth, immersive and montage forms. This book makes a compelling argument for a reconsideration of popular music history that highlights the eternal compulsion for spontaneous, imperfect and performative recorded artefacts.

General

Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Release date: December 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: John Encarnacao
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 298
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-3399-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
Books > Music > Folk music
Promotions
LSN: 1-4094-3399-4
Barcode: 9781409433996

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Every Day Is An Opening Night - Our…
Des & Dawn Lindberg Paperback  (1)
R430 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970
Rememberings
Sinead O' Connor Paperback R460 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990
A History of European Folk Music
Jan Ling, Linda Schenck, … Hardcover R2,455 Discovery Miles 24 550
Steel Drivin' Man - John Henry: The…
Scott Reynolds Nelson Hardcover R767 Discovery Miles 7 670
Bob Dylan's New York
June Sawyers Hardcover R744 Discovery Miles 7 440
Songs of Ships & Sailors
Julia Lane, Fred Gosbee Hardcover R888 Discovery Miles 8 880
Charlie & His Banjo - The Story of…
Louise Wright Price Hardcover R686 Discovery Miles 6 860
The Music Gods are Real - The Winter…
Jonathan a Fink Hardcover R576 Discovery Miles 5 760
Again With One Voice - British Songs of…
Dick Holdstock Hardcover R869 Discovery Miles 8 690
I Wouldn't Count On It - Confessions of…
Tom May Hardcover R798 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150
Joni - The Anthology
Barney Hoskyns Paperback R425 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990
We Never Knew Just What It Was ... The…
Mike Murphey Hardcover R659 Discovery Miles 6 590

See more

Partners