What is post-punk? Genre and Identity in avant-garde popular music, 1977-82 / Mimi Haddon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haddon, Mimi, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-punk music--History and criticism.

Post-punk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A great deal has been written about punk and the dramatic changes it wrought in the transatlantic world of pop music. A wave of new music that was strongly influenced by the politics and sounds of punk-but less raw, more commercially successful-followed close on punk's heels in the late 1970s. (Think Joy Division, The Raincoats, Human League, Public Image Limited, The Slits.) Post-punk has always been controversial to the influential fans of punk and rock (music writers as well as music fans): post-punk is more self-consciously "arty" and cosmopolitan, engaged with genres outside the predominantly white-identified rock family tree (particularly reggae and disco), and has always been willing to question the valuing of authenticity over artifice (and pleasure). Haddon focuses on how post-punk's push beyond the tropes of rock and punk challenged prevalent ideas about what makes pop music culturally valuable and commercially successful, showing how post-punk's emphasis on artifice, identity politics, and eclecticism opened the door to wider discussions of these topics in the context of other genres ranging from glam and New Wave to indie rock"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Dividing the New Wave : Emergence, Genealogy, and Signification

Dub Is the New Black and the Post-Colonial Politics of Sonic Space

Post-Punk or Death Disco? Dance, Rhythm, and White Masculinity

Post-Punk Women and the Discourse of Punk Amateurism

Between Flesh and Machines : "Modern" Music and the "Industrial" Sound of Post-Punk's Regional Cities

Epilogue : The "Post" in Post-Punk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472126552

0472126555