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Read & Burn - A Book About Wire (Book)
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Read & Burn - A Book About Wire (Book)
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List price R502
Loot Price R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
You Save R69 (14%)
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(Book). Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of
Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during
the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was
largely by historical accident. Despite the fact that they had
complicated and transformed that category almost before they'd
begun, they seem never to have quite escaped the label. Be it punk,
post-punk, or art-punk, critics have clung onto the p-word in an
attempt to capture the essence of Wire's innovative uniqueness. But
their story which honors punk's original yet quickly forgotten
commitment to the new is one of constant remaking and remodelling,
one that stubbornly resists reduction to a single identity. As a
result, the group's projects have always balanced uneasily between
artistic endeavour and the need for commercial sustainability,
played out against the backdrop of the musicians' perennially
complex creative relationships. Tracing Wire's diverse output from
1977 up until the present, Read & Burn seeks to do justice to
their highly influential and restlessly inventive body of work by
developing a sustained critical account of their shifting
approaches. It combines analysis and interpretation with
perspective drawn from exclusive interviews with past and present
members of the band.
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