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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk - 1974-1982 (Paperback)
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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk - 1974-1982 (Paperback)
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Neither a dry-as-dust reference volume recycling the same dull
facts nor a gushy, gossipy puff piece, "A Cultural Dictionary of
Punk: 1974-1982" is a bold book that examines punk as a movement
that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It
contains myriad critical-listening descriptions of the sounds of
the time, but also places those sounds in the context of history.
Drawing on hundreds of fanzines, magazines, and newspapers, the
book is--in the spirit of punk--an obsessive, exhaustively
researched, and sometimes deeply personal portrait of the many ways
in which punk was an artistic, cultural, and political expression
of defiance.
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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk" is organized around scores of
distinct entries, on everything from Lester Bangs to The Slits,
from Jimmy Carter to Minimalism, from 'Dot Dash' to Bad Brains.
Both highly informative and thrillingly idiosyncratic, the book
takes a fresh look at how the malaise of the 1970s offered fertile
ground for punk--as well as the new wave, post-punk, and
hardcore--to emerge as a rejection of the easy platitudes of the
dying counter-culture. The organization is accessible and
entertaining: short bursts of meaning, in tune with the beat of
punk itself.
Rombes upends notions that the story of punk can be told in a
chronological, linear fashion. Meant to be read straight through or
opened up and experienced at random, "A Cultural Dictionary of
Punk" covers not only many of the well-known, now-legendary punk
bands, but the obscure, forgotten ones as well. Along the way,
punk's secret codes are unraveled and a critical time in history is
framed and exclaimed.
Visit the "Cultural Dictionaryof Punk" blog here.
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