| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in the history of subcultures and popular music
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Palgrave studies in the history of subcultures and popular music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
As the Sex Pistols were breaking up, Britain was entering a new era. Punk s filth and fury had burned brightly and briefly; soon a new underground offered a more sustained and constructive challenge. As future-focused, independently released singles appeared in the wake of the Sex Pistols, there were high hopes in magazines like NME and the DIY fanzine media spawned by punk. Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain explores how post-punk s politics developed into the 1980s. Illustrating that the movement s monochrome gloom was illuminated by residual flickers of countercultural utopianism, it situates post-punk in the ideological crossfire of a key political struggle of the era: a battle over pleasure and freedom between emerging Thatcherism and libertarian, feminist and countercultural movements dating back to the post-war New Left. Case studies on bands including Gang of Four, The Fall and the Slits and labels like Rough Trade move sensitively between close reading, historical context and analysis of who made post-punk and how it was produced and mediated. The book examines, too, how the struggles of post-punk resonate down to the present." |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Shake Your Cosy Attitudes; Notes; Chapter 2: Post-Punk and the Politics of Postwar Popular Music; Cultural Materialism, Popular Music and Post-Punk; The Institutional Basis of Postwar Popular Music; Culturalism; Populism; Anti-Culturalism; Formations and Structures of Feeling; Freedom, Pleasure and Popular Music; Form, Authorship and Reception; Form; Authorship; Reception; Notes; Chapter 3: Post-Punk, Thatcherism and the Libertarian Left; Thatcherism, Welfare-Capitalism and the Libertarian Left. |
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From the Counterculture to Post-PunkPost-Punk as Distinctive Formation; The Politics of Left Post-Punk; New Sensibilities; The Politics of the Personal; Feminism; Politics; The Music Industry; Notes; Chapter 4: Is Natural in It? Radical Theory and Educational Capital; 'But That Was Once I Got out of Wales ... '1; 'If All the Time You React to Things on an Emotional Level, You'll Never Get Anywhere'61; Wanting Better?; Sweet and Sour; 'Whatever You Do Is Political with a Small "p"'106; Born to Lead?; Hammer and Popsicle129; 'If only the Clash Had Made Swiping the Swag Sound so Damn Compelling'140. |
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Making Money and Being the Beatles'We were seen as Anti-Capitalist but We Weren't'163; Notes; Chapter 5: The Politics of the Post-Punk Working Class Autodidact; Northern White Crap Talking Back; 'Coronation Street on Acid'; How to Use Freedom?; 'Just Sell the Record, You Hippy'; Mountains and Mysticism; Free to Act, Forced to Pay; The Weediest Gang in Salford; 'Politics is Life'; 'Working Without Display'; Vibrations That Live On; Notes; Chapter 6: Desires Bound with Briars: Freedom, Pleasure and Feminism; 'It Seemed So Doable'; 'We are Feminists in a Way' |
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'A Feminist? Why the Hell Would I Not Be?'Satisfying Empty Feelings; 'Odyshape'; 'God Is Riddim and So Is the Earth Going Round'; Joys and Desires; 'When You're into a Thing for Money ... '; 'Cosy Camden Lock Sweaters'; Difficult Fun; Notes; Chapter 7: Agents of Change: Post-Punk and the Present; Losing Its Edge; Make a Connection; A New Kind of Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Books and Chapters in Edited Collections; Media Sources; Journal Articles; Internet Sources; Original Interviews; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Post-punk music -- Great Britain.
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Music -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
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Popular music -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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British & Irish history. |
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Music. |
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Social & cultural history. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Music -- Political aspects |
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Politics and government |
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Popular music -- Political aspects |
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Post-punk music |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781137497796 1137497793 (OCoLC)944474129 |
| ISBN |
9781137497802 (electronic bk.) |
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1137497807 (electronic bk.) |
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9781137497796 |
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1137497793 |
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