Post-punk
Subtitle: then and now
By: edited by Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun and Mark Fisher
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781910924266
Subjects: Punk culture; Post-punk music; Punk culture and art; History and criticism; Counterculture; History
Description: Focusing on the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period of cultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists and musicians working under 21st century conditions of austerity. Includes contemporary reflections by those who shaped avant-garde and contestatory culture in the 1970s and 1980s, alongside contributions by contemporary artists and scholars. Focusing on the UK, US, Brazil and Poland, the book provides critical perspectives on post-punk then and its relation to the aesthetics and politics of cultural production today.
Notes: "A Repeater Books paperback original"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun, and Mark Fisher in conversation; title: "Personality crisis? Honey, I was born with one"  -- Lydia Lunch interviewed by Dominic Johnson; title: Being in a band : art-school experiment and the post-punk commons  -- a lecture by Gavin Butt; title: "On the one hand the state is funding you and enabling your existence, on the other hand, your whole shtick is to rebel against it" : post-punk and Poland  -- a talk by Agata Pyzik; title: "Going overground : the jam between populism and popular modernism"  -- a lecture by Mark Fisher; title: Lockout and breakout  -- Laura Oldfield Ford and Gee Voucher in conversation with Mark Fisher; title: "The weakest link in every chain, I always want to find it"  -- Green Gartside in conversation with Kodwo Eshun; title: "40 degrees in black"  -- Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner in conversation with Gavin Butt; title: "We wanted this sense of fluxing in and out of history"  -- Sue Clayton in conversation with Kowdo Eshun; title: "Vague post-punk memories" -- a lecture by Tom Vague, and conversation with Mark Fisher.