Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

Author:   Pete Dale ,  Professor Derek B. Scott ,  Professor Stan Hawkins ,  Professor Lori Burns
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9781409444329


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 July 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Pete Dale ,  Professor Derek B. Scott ,  Professor Stan Hawkins ,  Professor Lori Burns
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781409444329


ISBN 10:   1409444325
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 July 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Introduction; Part I Anyone Can Do - What?: What is punk; The folk 'us'; Punk as folk; Conclusion to part I. Part II Can Any One Do 'It'?: Punk, avant-gardism and novelty; Marxism, anarchism and the issue of universality; Justice to come and the micromatic recoi; Conclusion to part IIl. Part III The Beginning of a Continuation: Interlude 1: an original rebirth?; There is no authority, but ...; Indie pop ain't noise pollution; Conclusion to part III. Part IV The Continuation of a Beginning: Interlude 2: still birth?; The arrival of a new, renegade, girl-boy hyper-nation; Delivering the groceries at 138 beats per minute; Conclusion to part IV; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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This is a history which deserves, indeed needs, to be told. That Dale has chosen to attempt to make sense of a subject so diverse and self-contradictory as this is laudable. If the anarcho-punk tenet 'there is no authority but yourself' is to be followed, then he has admirably succeeded in proving his point - 'le punk est mort, vive le punk'. Penny Rimbaud, former member of Crass 'A long-needed study... promise[s] to become central to current research in the area of punk rock.' North American British Music Studies Association Newsletter


'This is a history which deserves, indeed needs, to be told. That Dale has chosen to attempt to make sense of a subject so diverse and self-contradictory as this is laudable. If the anarcho-punk tenet 'there is no authority but yourself' is to be followed, then he has admirably succeeded in proving his point - 'le punk est mort, vive le punk'. Penny Rimbaud, former member of Crass 'A long-needed study... promise[s] to become central to current research in the area of punk rock.' - North American British Music Studies Association Newsletter Dale's study is theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous, mediating between close readings of songs and historical, social, political and philosophical themes... The book is commendably ambitious in its thematic range. - Wilkinson, D., Worley, M. and Street, J. (2016) ' I Wanna See Some History : Recent Writing on British Punk', Contemporary European History


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Pete Dale is renowned in the punk underground for his involvement in the Slampt Underground Organisation and groups such as Pussycat Trash, Milky Wimpshake and Red Monkey. His recent PhD research at Newcastle University explored the politics of punk. He taught music in a Gateshead secondary school for many years. He is currently Popular Music Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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