False prophet : fieldnotes from the punk underground / Steven Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Steven, 1955-

Series:

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

False Prophets (Musical group).

Rock musicians.

Punk rock music--History and criticism.

Punk rock music.

Punk culture.

Physical Description:

ix, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2003]

Summary:

From 1988 through 1993, guitarist/vocalist Steven Taylor toured the U.S. and Europe with the alternative rock group False Prophets, keeping a detailed journal with the intent of documenting the role of musicians in the international anarchist youth movement. His fieldnotes form the core of the book, accounting with honesty and aplomb the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing, always engaging highs and lows of life on the road. False Prophet situates punk, and the diary itself, in relation to contemporary critiques of identity and ethnographic representation, and links punk's emergence to the oral poetry renaissance of the 1950s, free jazz, and the do-it-yourself trend set by underground filmmakers in the 1960s. This innovative ethnography provides a theoretically informed account of a little understood genre of popular music, and a rare, intimate view into the everyday life of a working band. The audio CD contains some of False Prophets' most popular cuts.

Contents:

BOOK 1 The Subject in Question: Punk Paradox and the Problem of Culture

Who You Calling a Punk, Punk?

Revolution in Punk Poetics

Identity Is the Crisis, Can't You See?

Death and Transfiguration: The Rock Alternative and Alternative Rock

What Good Is It?

Deliberate Amnesia: Punk's Origin Myths

Baudelaire's Dandy and a Chick Who Looks Like a Crow

No Future

Hardcore

Between Reality and Thesis

BOOK 2 You Want to Get Paid? Oh. I'll Have to Talk to the Band

On the Road o So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star

To Hell and Back

How Do You Feel about Your Negative Result?

Back to Hell

Never Again (Again)

Last Blast

P.S. When's the Reunion?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index.

ISBN:

0819566675

0819566683

OCLC:

52846709