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, is not an easily definable musical category.
How do electro-pop melodies, distorted guitars, avant-garde
industrial sounds, and reggae beats fit under the same categorical
umbrella? What post-punk is not is as interesting a question as
what it is. 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
reveals post-punk 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. A
detailed exploration of an otherwise under-explored cultural
phenomenon, What Is Post-Punk? is a significant addition to
scholarship in popular music, of interest to scholars of genre
theory and discourse analysis, including feminist and postcolonial
discourse.
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