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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254774803321

Autore

Wilkinson David

Titolo

Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain [[electronic resource] /] / by David Wilkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-49780-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 228 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music, , 2730-9517

Disciplina

941

Soggetti

Great Britain—History

Civilization—History

Music

History of Britain and Ireland

Cultural History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1 Introduction: Shake Your Cosy Attitudes -- 2 Post-Punk and the Politics of Post-War Popular Music -- 3 Post-Punk, Thatcherism and the Libertarian Left -- 4 Is Natural In It? Radical Theory and Educational Capital -- 5 The Politics of the Post-Punk Working Class Autodidact -- 6 Desires Bound With Briars: Freedom, Pleasure and Feminism -- 7 Agents of Change: Post-Punk and the Present.

Sommario/riassunto

As the Sex Pistols were breaking up, Britain was entering a new era. Punk’s filth and fury had burned brightly and briefly; soon a new underground offered a more sustained and constructive challenge. As future-focused, independently released singles appeared in the wake of the Sex Pistols, there were high hopes in magazines like NME and the DIY fanzine media spawned by punk. Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain explores how post-punk’s politics developed into the 1980s. Illustrating that the movement’s monochrome gloom was illuminated by residual flickers of countercultural utopianism, it situates post-punk in the ideological crossfire of a key political struggle of the era: a battle over pleasure and freedom between emerging Thatcherism and libertarian, feminist and countercultural movements dating back to the



post-war New Left. Case studies on bands including Gang of Four, The Fall and the Slits and labels like Rough Trade move sensitively between close reading, historical context and analysis of who made post-punk and how it was produced and mediated. The book examines, too, how the struggles of post-punk resonate down to the present. .