
Entertainment
Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
Utgitt | New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2014
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Omfang | 142, X
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Opplysninger | Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something
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ISBN | 978-1-62356-065-2
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