Butt Gavin Butt

No Machos or Pop Stars (eBook, PDF)

When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk

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Produktbeschreibung

After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how England's state-funded education policy brought together art students from different social classes to create a fertile ground for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the groups who wanted to dismantle both art world and music industry hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional music scene of lasting international significance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023234
• Artikelnr.: 66282959

Autorenporträt

Gavin Butt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Class Acts  ix
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction: The Art School Dance Goes On  1
Part I. Avant-Garde and Punk
1. Beginning at a Dead End  23
2. Anarchy at the Poly  56
Part II. Forming a Band
3. Punk Bohemians  75
4. Debating Society  105
5. Why Theory?  126
6. “No Machos or Pop-Stars Please”  146
7. Electric Shock  171
8. Rehearsals for the Mutant Disco  198
Epilogue: The Limits of Experiment—1981 and After  225
Notes  245
Discography  267
Bibliography  271
Index  283