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Item Details
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GANG OF FOUR'S ENTERTAINMENT!
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| By: |
Kevin J. H. Dettmar |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£8.99 |
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£1.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1623560659 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781623560652 |
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| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 2014 |
| Series: |
33 1/3 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Synopsis: |
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 of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen-the misunderstood lyric-seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes.But that's the title, too, of rock 'n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation-and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
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