Popular music in the US and UK during the late 1970s and early
1980s was wildly eclectic and experimental. "Post-punk," as it was
retroactively labeled, could include electro-pop melodies,
distorted guitars, avant-garde industrial sounds, and reggae beats,
and thus is not an easily definable musical category. What Is
Post-Punk? combines a close reading of the late-1970s music press
discourse with musical analyses and theories of identity to unpack
post-punk's status as a genre. Mimi Haddon traces the discursive
foundations of post-punk across publications such as Sounds,
ZigZag, Melody Maker, the Village Voice, and the NME, and presents
case studies of bands including Wire, PiL, Joy Division, the
Raincoats, and Pere Ubu. By positioning post-punk in relation to
genres such as punk, new wave, dub, and disco, Haddon explores the
boundaries of post-punk, and reveals it as a community of tastes
and predilections rather than a stylistically unified whole. Haddon
diversifies the discourse around post-punk, exploring both its
gender and racial dynamics and its proto-industrial aesthetics to
restore the historical complexity surrounding the genre's terms and
origins.
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