Question: What about the sense of paradox in postpunk different in relation to the pop music of the day?
Answer: unique

Question: What corporation was John Peel a DJ for?
Answer: BBC

Question: What were Fast, Mute, and Glass in the context of post-punk music?
Answer: record labels

Question: When did British post-punk emerge?
Answer: 1980s

Question: Who said that British post-punk was "sparked by a tension, humour and sense of paradox plainly unique in present day pop music"?
Answer: Greil Marcus

Question: What British post-punk bands had success in the popular charts?
Answer: PiL and Joy Division

Question: Which record labels really supported the British post-punk movement?
Answer: Industrial, Fast, E.G., Mute, Axis/4AD and Glass

Question: What popular DJ supported the emergence of British post-punk?
Answer: BBC DJ John Peel

Question: What did the magazines catering to post-punk interest do to alienate their readers?
Answer: increasingly esoteric writing

Question: Many of the big players in the post-punk scene began leaning away from what as time progressed?
Answer: underground aesthetics

Question: What writer advocated "overground brightness"?
Answer: Paul Morley

Question: Which magazine tied to the post-punk movement lost half of its circulation?
Answer: NME

Question: What did the club-oriented scene emphasize instead of the experimental seriousness of earlier post-punk groups?
Answer: glamour, fashion, and escapism

Question: What did authors and artists begin advocating for instead of the underground scene?
Answer: overground brightness

Question: What began to alienate the readers from publications such as NME?
Answer: increasingly esoteric writing

Question: Who did Paul Morley collaborate with on the Art of Noise?
Answer: engineer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik

Question: What did the Art of Noise hope to accomplish?
Answer: attempt to bring sampled and electronic sounds to the pop mainstream

Question: Which new cultural movement began to emphasize glam, escapism and fashion?
Answer: New Romantic

Question: What style of music was Gary Numan associated with?
Answer: synthpop

Question: What did the synthpop style of music benefit from the gaining popularity of?
Answer: MTV

Question: Synthpop heavily borrowed elements from what type of music?
Answer: electronic and synthesizer music

Question: What type of ideas did post-punk artists attempt to sneak into mainstream pop?
Answer: subversive

Question: What did some post-punk artists reject their previous avant-garde practices to pursue?
Answer: commercial success

Question: What new music style focused on electronic and synthesized sounds?
Answer: synthpop

Question: What really helped to launch synthpop?
Answer: MTV

Question: What else began to emerge as post-punk groups moved to a more commercial focus?
Answer: pop

Question: How did pos-punk give rise to pop?
Answer: post-punk artists attempted to bring subversive ideas into the pop mainstream

Question: When did Manhattan's no wave scene start becoming more dance-oriented?
Answer: early 1980s

Question: What formula did a lot of the artists emerging from the scene adhere to?
Answer: "anything at all + disco bottom"

Question: What type of party could be found at venues like Club 57?
Answer: decadent

Question: Who did the venues because cultural hubs for?
Answer: musicians and visual artists alike

Question: What movement was the group the Lounge Lizards indebted to?
Answer: no wave

Question: What did Downtown Manhattan's no wave scene transition into?
Answer: dance-oriented sound

Question: What type of sound did no wave have before it began to transition to a more dance oriented sound?
Answer: abrasive

Question: When was ZE's Mutant Disco released?
Answer: 1981

Question: What clubs were frequented by artists in the emerging dance scene?
Answer: Club 57 and the Mudd Club

Question: Where did some groups develop a unique style of industrial music?
Answer: Germany

Question: What type of music included noise, homemade instruments, and randomly found objects?
Answer: industrial

Question: What country had a post-punk scene after a generation of rock?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What type of album was The Sexual Life of the Savages?
Answer: compilations

Question: What countries other than Brazil was Brazil's no wave music exported to?
Answer: UK, Germany

Question: What type of music was associated with Einstürzende Neubauten?
Answer: industrial

Question: Where was Einstürzende Neubauten from?
Answer: Germany

Question: How did Einstürzende Neubauten come up with their new industrial sound?
Answer: avant-garde noise, homemade instruments and found objects

Question: Who did members of Einstürzende Neubauten also collaborate with?
Answer: the Birthday Party

Question: Where was Madame Satã?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What type of music did many of the post-punk bands start indulging in?
Answer: pop

Question: How did bands associated with the original post-punk movement cause it to end?
Answer: turned away from its aesthetics

Question: What venue drove a lot of the awareness of the music from the now pop post-punk bands?
Answer: MTV

Question: Where was a lot of the post-punk pop bands played in addition to MTV?
Answer: American college radio

Question: What band combined religious imagery with political commentary into their music?
Answer: U2

Question: What was the death knell of the post-punk movement?
Answer: commercial sounds

Question: What else would the post-punk bands record under?
Answer: pop

Question: Who was the most successful band to arrise from post-punk?
Answer: U2

Question: What was one of the most popular concepts of the pop movement?
Answer: entryism

Question: What was a driving force behind the revival of the second British Invasion of New Music to America?
Answer: MTV and modern rock radio stations

Question: How did most critical writing treat the post-punk era, until recently?
Answer: dismissed

Question: What do contemporary scholars feel the post-punk period contributed in hindsight?
Answer: significant innovations and music

Question: What did Simon Reynolds describe the era of post-punk as a match for in terms of great music created?
Answer: the sixties

Question: Who wrote that the music of the post-punk era was avant-garde?
Answer: Nicholas Lezard

Question: What were the post-punk era artists more interested in doing to their audiences than in entertaining them with pop songs?
Answer: disturbing

Question: What era was usually dismissed as merely an awkward phase of music?
Answer: post-punk

Question: What do comtemporary scholars think that post-punk actually did for music?
Answer: produced significant innovations and music on its own

Question: Which critic said that the post-punk period was open to any possibilities as far as music went?
Answer: Nicholas Lezard

Question: Who said that the post-punk movement rivaled the Sixties in the shear amount of great music produced?
Answer: Simon Reynolds

Question: What did Nicholas Leonard say united post-punk?
Answer: cerebral, concocted by brainy young men and women interested as much in disturbing the audience, or making them think, as in making a pop song

Question: What musical styles did post-punk help merge?
Answer: white and black musical styles

Question: What beginnings rose from the dead ashes of post-punk?
Answer: various subsequent genres

Question: New wave, industrial music, synthpop and house all share roots in what genre?
Answer: post-punk

Question: What style of music did post-punk band the Cure play in?
Answer: darker, more morose

Question: What genre of music did Joy Division help in the development of?
Answer: gothic rock

Question: Which type of eclectic music had a huge variety, large innovations and an "anything goes" mentality?
Answer: Post-punk

Question: Which darker post-punk bands gave rise to gothic rock?
Answer: Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus and the Cure