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Post-punk then and now / edited by Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun and Mark Fisher.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Repeater, 2016Description: 301 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781910924266
Subject(s): Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
1. Introduction / Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun, and Mark Fisher in Conversation
2. "Personality Crisis? Honey, I Was Born with One" / Lydia Lunch Interviewed by Dominic Johnson
3. Being in A Band: Art-school Experiment and the Post-Punk Commons / a Lecture by Gavin Butt
4. "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
5. "Going Overground: The Jam between Populism and Popular Modernism" / a Lecture by Mark Fisher
6. Lockdown and Breakout / Laura Oldfield Ford and Gee Vaucher in Conversation with Mark Fisher
7. "The Weakest Link in Every Chain, I Always Want To Find It" / Green Gartside in Conversation with Kodwo Eshun
8. "40 Degrees in Black" / Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner in Conversation with Gavin Butt
9. "We Wanted This Sense of Fluxing In and Out of History" / Sue Clayton in Conversation with Kodwo Eshun
10. "Vague Post-Punk Memories" / a Lecture by Tom Vague, and Conversation with Mark Fisher
Summary: What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book provides 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.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 306.1 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10041

1. Introduction / Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun, and Mark Fisher in Conversation

2. "Personality Crisis? Honey, I Was Born with One" / Lydia Lunch Interviewed by Dominic Johnson

3. Being in A Band: Art-school Experiment and the Post-Punk Commons / a Lecture by Gavin Butt

4. "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

5. "Going Overground: The Jam between Populism and Popular Modernism" / a Lecture by Mark Fisher

6. Lockdown and Breakout / Laura Oldfield Ford and Gee Vaucher in Conversation with Mark Fisher

7. "The Weakest Link in Every Chain, I Always Want To Find It" / Green Gartside in Conversation with Kodwo Eshun

8. "40 Degrees in Black" / Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner in Conversation with Gavin Butt

9. "We Wanted This Sense of Fluxing In and Out of History" / Sue Clayton in Conversation with Kodwo Eshun

10. "Vague Post-Punk Memories" / a Lecture by Tom Vague, and Conversation with Mark Fisher

What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book provides 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.

Also issued online.