Pete Dale

Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it', grounding itself in a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character. How valid is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment? Anyone Can Do It explores the cultural history and politics of the punk underground. Detailed case studies show the continuities and differences between four micro-traditions of punk.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317180241
• Artikelnr.: 49352706

Autorenporträt

Pete Dale is renowned in the punk underground for his involvement in the Slampt Underground Organisation and groups such as Pussycat Trash, Milky Wimpshake and Red Monkey. His recent PhD research at Newcastle University explored the politics of punk. He taught music in a Gateshead secondary school for many years. He is currently Popular Music Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I Anyone Can Do - What?: What is punk
The folk 'us'
Punk as folk
Conclusion to part I. Part II Can Any One Do 'It'?: Punk, avant-gardism and novelty
Marxism, anarchism and the issue of universality
Justice to come and the micromatic recoi
Conclusion to part IIl. Part III The Beginning of a Continuation: Interlude 1: an original rebirth?
There is no authority, but ...
Indie pop ain't noise pollution
Conclusion to part III. Part IV The Continuation of a Beginning: Interlude 2: still birth?
The arrival of a new, renegade, girl-boy hyper-nation
Delivering the groceries at 138 beats per minute
Conclusion to part IV
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.