Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground
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Main Author: Dale, Pete (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham Ashgate Pub. 2012
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series
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Item Description:Cover; Contents; List of Musical Examples; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Anyone Can Do -- What?; 1 What is Punk?; 2 The Folk 'Us'; 3 Punk as Folk; Conclusion to Part I; Part II: Can Any One Do 'It'?; 4 Punk, Avant-gardism and Novelty; 5 Marxism, Anarchism and the Issue of Universality; 6 Justice to Come and the Micromatic Recoil; Conclusion to Part II; Part III: The Beginning of a Continuation; Interlude 1: An Original Rebirth?; 7 There is no Authority, But ... ; 8 Indie Pop Ain't Noise Pollution; Conclusion to Part III; Part IV: The Continuation of a Beginning
Interlude 2: Still Birth?9 The Arrival of a New, Renegade, Girl-Boy Hyper-Nation; 10 Delivering the Groceries at 138 Beats per Minute; Conclusion to Part IV; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
The punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it', grounding itself in a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character. How valid is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment? Anyone Can Do It explores the cultural history and politics of the punk underground. Detailed case studies show the continuities and differences between four micro-traditions of punk
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index
Physical Description:257 pages
ISBN:9781409444336
1409444333
9781409444329