Author: Pete Astor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623561221
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
"To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970's wearing a tee shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of arch nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into pre-punkUK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was most impressed. The fact that it emerged (after many years) that Hell himself had not worn the garment but had convinced junior band member Richard Lloyd to do so, actually fitted very well with Astor's older, wiser, and more knowing self. Here was an artist who could not only embody but also frame the punk urge; just what was needed to make one of the defining records of the era.Having seeded and developed the essential look and character of punk since his arrival in New York in the late 1960's, Richard Hell and The Voidoids released Blank Generation in 1977. Pete Astor's portmanteau approach uses objective and subjective perspectives to articulate the meanings of the album, combining academic rigour with the reception-based subjectivities that are key to understanding our relationships to popular culture"--
Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation
Author: Pete Astor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623561221
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
"To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970's wearing a tee shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of arch nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into pre-punkUK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was most impressed. The fact that it emerged (after many years) that Hell himself had not worn the garment but had convinced junior band member Richard Lloyd to do so, actually fitted very well with Astor's older, wiser, and more knowing self. Here was an artist who could not only embody but also frame the punk urge; just what was needed to make one of the defining records of the era.Having seeded and developed the essential look and character of punk since his arrival in New York in the late 1960's, Richard Hell and The Voidoids released Blank Generation in 1977. Pete Astor's portmanteau approach uses objective and subjective perspectives to articulate the meanings of the album, combining academic rigour with the reception-based subjectivities that are key to understanding our relationships to popular culture"--
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623561221
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
"To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970's wearing a tee shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of arch nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into pre-punkUK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was most impressed. The fact that it emerged (after many years) that Hell himself had not worn the garment but had convinced junior band member Richard Lloyd to do so, actually fitted very well with Astor's older, wiser, and more knowing self. Here was an artist who could not only embody but also frame the punk urge; just what was needed to make one of the defining records of the era.Having seeded and developed the essential look and character of punk since his arrival in New York in the late 1960's, Richard Hell and The Voidoids released Blank Generation in 1977. Pete Astor's portmanteau approach uses objective and subjective perspectives to articulate the meanings of the album, combining academic rigour with the reception-based subjectivities that are key to understanding our relationships to popular culture"--
From the Velvets to the Voidoids
Author: Clinton Heylin
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613745958
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads, and the Dead Boys, this account is the definitive story of early American punk rock. Extraordinarily balanced, it tells the story of the music's development largely through the artists' own words, while thoroughly analyzing and evaluating the music in a lucid and cogent manner. First published in 1993, this was the first book to tell the stories of these then-little-known bands; now, this edition has been updated with a new discography, including imports and bootlegs, and an afterword detailing the post-1970s history of these bands. Filled with insights from interviews with artists such as Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, David Byrne, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell, this book has long been considered one of the essential reads on rock rebellion.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613745958
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads, and the Dead Boys, this account is the definitive story of early American punk rock. Extraordinarily balanced, it tells the story of the music's development largely through the artists' own words, while thoroughly analyzing and evaluating the music in a lucid and cogent manner. First published in 1993, this was the first book to tell the stories of these then-little-known bands; now, this edition has been updated with a new discography, including imports and bootlegs, and an afterword detailing the post-1970s history of these bands. Filled with insights from interviews with artists such as Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, David Byrne, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell, this book has long been considered one of the essential reads on rock rebellion.
The Voidoid
Author: Richard Hell
Publisher: Codex
ISBN: 9781899598021
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Voidoid was written in 1973 in a little furnished room on East 10th Street. I was staying down the block overlooking the graveyard at St Mark's Church. Every day I'd take a cheap bottle of wine with me across the street to the $16-a-week room I'd rented for writing. Sometimes afterwards if l had some extra money I'd go the pharmacy on Second Avenue and buy a bottle of codeine cough syrup and come back and lie on the cot again...
Publisher: Codex
ISBN: 9781899598021
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Voidoid was written in 1973 in a little furnished room on East 10th Street. I was staying down the block overlooking the graveyard at St Mark's Church. Every day I'd take a cheap bottle of wine with me across the street to the $16-a-week room I'd rented for writing. Sometimes afterwards if l had some extra money I'd go the pharmacy on Second Avenue and buy a bottle of codeine cough syrup and come back and lie on the cot again...
The Light Within Darkness
Author: David C. Jeffrey
Publisher: Sylvanus Books
ISBN: 0998674273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Light Within Darkness, Book 3 of the Space Unbound series. Year 2218. A vast new region of space with its own network of interconnected voidoids has just been discovered, expanding humanity’s prospects immeasurably. But a malevolent mastermind is on the loose, and he’s claimed it all for himself and his twisted Posthuman empire. Now he’s on a crusade to wipe out the human race and is cloning an invincible army of transhuman psychopaths to do the job. The Alliance must stop him, but no one knows where he is among the 50,000 stars scattered across the region’s three million cubic light-years of space. The Sun Wolf, with its zero-point drive, is the only ship with any chance of finding this sinister demigod before it’s too late. The hunt begins with a cryptic clue that leads Commander Aiden Macallan and his hand-picked crew to uncharted star systems and exotic exoplanets. At the same time, Aiden’s mate, renowned microbiologist Skye Landen, follows a promising clue of her own, risking a fate worse than death. But time is running out, and an unforeseen ally from another realm may be their only hope for saving humanity from extermination.
Publisher: Sylvanus Books
ISBN: 0998674273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Light Within Darkness, Book 3 of the Space Unbound series. Year 2218. A vast new region of space with its own network of interconnected voidoids has just been discovered, expanding humanity’s prospects immeasurably. But a malevolent mastermind is on the loose, and he’s claimed it all for himself and his twisted Posthuman empire. Now he’s on a crusade to wipe out the human race and is cloning an invincible army of transhuman psychopaths to do the job. The Alliance must stop him, but no one knows where he is among the 50,000 stars scattered across the region’s three million cubic light-years of space. The Sun Wolf, with its zero-point drive, is the only ship with any chance of finding this sinister demigod before it’s too late. The hunt begins with a cryptic clue that leads Commander Aiden Macallan and his hand-picked crew to uncharted star systems and exotic exoplanets. At the same time, Aiden’s mate, renowned microbiologist Skye Landen, follows a promising clue of her own, risking a fate worse than death. But time is running out, and an unforeseen ally from another realm may be their only hope for saving humanity from extermination.
Through a Forest of Stars
Author: David C. Jeffrey
Publisher: Sylvanus Books
ISBN: 0998674257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Year 2217. Earth’s biosphere is dying, Mars’s terraforming projects are in ruin, resource wars are brewing, and even the voidoids—eerie portals into nearby star systems—have failed to yield new Earth-like worlds. But that’s about to change with the miraculous discovery in the Chara system. United Earth Domain and the Allied Republics of Mars, rival powers within Bound Space, each want it for themselves, and a cataclysmic war is about to erupt. Aiden Macallan, Terra Corp’s planetary geologist aboard the survey ship Argo, finds himself pulled into the center of the conflict and into the heart of a profound mystery where the key to humanity’s survival lies hidden. To find it, he must trek alone across a living landscape, guided only by a recurring dream that grows more real, and more deeply personal, with each step. It’s the only way to save an extraordinary world—and the human race—from certain destruction.
Publisher: Sylvanus Books
ISBN: 0998674257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Year 2217. Earth’s biosphere is dying, Mars’s terraforming projects are in ruin, resource wars are brewing, and even the voidoids—eerie portals into nearby star systems—have failed to yield new Earth-like worlds. But that’s about to change with the miraculous discovery in the Chara system. United Earth Domain and the Allied Republics of Mars, rival powers within Bound Space, each want it for themselves, and a cataclysmic war is about to erupt. Aiden Macallan, Terra Corp’s planetary geologist aboard the survey ship Argo, finds himself pulled into the center of the conflict and into the heart of a profound mystery where the key to humanity’s survival lies hidden. To find it, he must trek alone across a living landscape, guided only by a recurring dream that grows more real, and more deeply personal, with each step. It’s the only way to save an extraordinary world—and the human race—from certain destruction.
Sun Wolf
Author: David C. Jeffrey
Publisher: Sylvanus Books
ISBN: 0998674230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Why does a man, haunted by a profoundly intimate encounter with an alien intelligence, troubled by a traumatic past, and stalked by a potentially devastating addiction accept an impossible mission to save humanity from certain annihilation? Because he is Aiden Macallan, commander of the Sun Wolf, and those afflictions make him the only person alive who can do the job. It’s 2218 and the enigmatic voidoids that enabled humanity’s fifty-year expansion into Bound Space, are fading out of existence. No one knows why, or who’s behind it, but one thing is certain: if the voidoids shut down, not only will humanity be locked out of Bound Space forever, but it will unleash a cosmological catastrophe of runaway dark energy that tears our universe apart—from atoms to stars. It will happen soon and happen fast, unless Aiden and his hand-picked crew of the Sun Wolf can stop it. But as they set course for the Frontier in search for answers, someone is trying to stop them, following from the shadows, attacking at every step of the way. Now, in a race against time and malevolent forces, light-years from home, the Sun Wolf is humanity’s only hope for survival.
Publisher: Sylvanus Books
ISBN: 0998674230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Why does a man, haunted by a profoundly intimate encounter with an alien intelligence, troubled by a traumatic past, and stalked by a potentially devastating addiction accept an impossible mission to save humanity from certain annihilation? Because he is Aiden Macallan, commander of the Sun Wolf, and those afflictions make him the only person alive who can do the job. It’s 2218 and the enigmatic voidoids that enabled humanity’s fifty-year expansion into Bound Space, are fading out of existence. No one knows why, or who’s behind it, but one thing is certain: if the voidoids shut down, not only will humanity be locked out of Bound Space forever, but it will unleash a cosmological catastrophe of runaway dark energy that tears our universe apart—from atoms to stars. It will happen soon and happen fast, unless Aiden and his hand-picked crew of the Sun Wolf can stop it. But as they set course for the Frontier in search for answers, someone is trying to stop them, following from the shadows, attacking at every step of the way. Now, in a race against time and malevolent forces, light-years from home, the Sun Wolf is humanity’s only hope for survival.
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Author: Colin Larkin
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857125958
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 4183
Book Description
This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857125958
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 4183
Book Description
This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names
Author: Adam Dolgins
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1683353374
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world’s most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it’s been out of print for years and has now been completely updated and expanded to feature dozens of exclusive interviews including conversations with groups like The Black Keys, The Killers, Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Cage the Elephant, and Vampire Weekend. From Arcade Fire to ZZ Top, this diverting and handsome collection reveals the often overlooked but defining histories of hundreds of the biggest names in rock and pop.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1683353374
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world’s most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it’s been out of print for years and has now been completely updated and expanded to feature dozens of exclusive interviews including conversations with groups like The Black Keys, The Killers, Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Cage the Elephant, and Vampire Weekend. From Arcade Fire to ZZ Top, this diverting and handsome collection reveals the often overlooked but defining histories of hundreds of the biggest names in rock and pop.
"Do You Have a Band?"
Author: Daniel Kane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154460X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem. Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant, and, most surprisingly and complexly, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Ted Berrigan, John Giorno, and Dennis Cooper, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154460X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem. Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant, and, most surprisingly and complexly, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Ted Berrigan, John Giorno, and Dennis Cooper, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City.
Listen to Punk Rock!
Author: June Michele Pulliam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Listen to Punk Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre discusses the evolution of punk from its inception in 1975 to the present, delving into the lasting impact of the genre throughout society today. Listen to Punk Rock! provides readers with a fuller picture of punk rock as an inclusive genre with continuing relevance. Organized in a roughly chronological manner, it starts with an introduction that explains the musical and cultural forces that shaped the punk genre. Next, 50 entries cover important punk bands and subgenres, noting female punk bands as well as bands of color. The final part of the book discusses how punk has influenced other musical genres and popular culture. The book will give those new to the genre an overview of important bands and products related to the movement in music, including publications, fashion, and films about punk rock. Notably, it pays special attention to diversity within the genre, discussing bands often overlooked or mentioned only in passing in most histories of the movement, which focus mainly on The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones as the pioneers of punk.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Listen to Punk Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre discusses the evolution of punk from its inception in 1975 to the present, delving into the lasting impact of the genre throughout society today. Listen to Punk Rock! provides readers with a fuller picture of punk rock as an inclusive genre with continuing relevance. Organized in a roughly chronological manner, it starts with an introduction that explains the musical and cultural forces that shaped the punk genre. Next, 50 entries cover important punk bands and subgenres, noting female punk bands as well as bands of color. The final part of the book discusses how punk has influenced other musical genres and popular culture. The book will give those new to the genre an overview of important bands and products related to the movement in music, including publications, fashion, and films about punk rock. Notably, it pays special attention to diversity within the genre, discussing bands often overlooked or mentioned only in passing in most histories of the movement, which focus mainly on The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones as the pioneers of punk.