24 hour revenge therapy : or, the strange death of selling out / Ronen Givony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Givony, Ronen, author.

Series:

33 1/3.

33 1/3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jawbreaker (Musical group). 24 hour revenge therapy.

Jawbreaker (Musical group).

Punk rock music--United States--History and criticism.

Punk rock music.

Physical Description:

1 electronic book (v, 213 p).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Twenty-Four Hour Revenge Therapy

Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

"Two and a half decades on, Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence. If anything, today, the cult of Jawbreaker - in their own words, "the little band that could but would probably rather not" - is now many times greater than it was when they broke up in 1996. Like the best work of Fugazi, The Clash, and Operation Ivy, the album is now is a rite of passage and a beloved classic among partisans of intelligent, committed, literary punk music and poetry. Why, when a thousand other artists came and went in that confounding decade of the 90s, did Jawbreaker somehow come to seem like more than just another band? Why do they persist, today, in meaning so much to so many people? And how did it happen that, two years after releasing their masterpiece, the band that was somehow more than just a band to its fans - closer to equipment for living - was no longer? Ronen Givony's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is an extended tribute in the spirit of Nicholson Baker's U & I: a passionate, highly personal, and occasionally obsessive study of one of the great confessional rock albums of the 90s. At the same time, it offers a quizzical look back to the toxic authenticity battles of the decade, ponders what happened to the question of "selling out," and asks whether we today are enriched or impoverished by that debate becoming obsolete."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

1: Rainy Days Drop Boyish Wonder

2: How Can I Do This Better?

3: The Clarity of Cal to Break Your Heart

4: These Things Go Wrong So Often

5: This Is All We Want from Line

6: Our Enemies Will Laugh and Be Pointing

7: Selling Kids to Other Kids

8: It's a Long Way Down Again

9: People from Bands and Labels. The Good Ones

Postscript: Hey, I Remember That Day

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501323119

1501323113

9781501323126

1501323121

9781501323102

1501323105

OCLC:

1170991748