What Is Post-Punk?: Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977-82 - Hardcover

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Popular music in the US and UK during the late 1970s and early 1980s was wildly eclectic and experimental. &#8220;Post-punk,&#8221; as it was retroactively labeled, could include electro-pop melodies, distorted guitars, avant-garde industrial sounds, and reggae beats, and thus is not an easily definable musical category.<br> <br> <i>What Is Post-Punk?</i>&#160;combines a close reading of the late-1970s music press discourse with musical analyses and theories of identity to unpack post-punk&#8217;s status as a genre. Mimi Haddon traces the discursive foundations of post-punk across publications such as&#160;<i>Sounds</i>,&#160;<i>ZigZag</i>,&#160;<i>Melody Maker</i>, the&#160;<i>Village Voice</i>, and the&#160;<i>NME</i>, and presents case studies of bands including Wire, PiL, Joy Division, the Raincoats, and Pere Ubu. By positioning post-punk in relation to genres such as punk, new wave, dub, and disco, Haddon explores the boundaries of post-punk, and reveals it as a community of tastes and predilections rather than a stylistically unified whole. Haddon diversifies the discourse around post-punk, exploring both its gender and racial dynamics and its proto-industrial aesthetics to restore the historical complexity surrounding the genre&#8217;s terms and origins.<br> <br> &#160;

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