Beskrivning
Beskrivning
As theSex Pistols were breaking up, Britain was entering a new era. Punk’s filth andfury had burned brightly and briefly; soon a new underground offered a moresustained and constructive challenge. As future-focused, independentlyreleased singles appeared in the wake of the Sex Pistols, there were highhopes in magazines like NME and theDIY fanzine media spawned by punk. Post-Punk,Politics and Pleasure in Britain explores how post-punk’s politicsdeveloped into the 1980s. Illustrating that the movement’s monochrome gloomwas illuminated by residual flickers of countercultural utopianism, itsituates post-punk in the ideological crossfire of a key political struggle ofthe era: a battle over pleasure and freedom between emerging Thatcherism andlibertarian, feminist and countercultural movements dating back to thepost-war New Left. Case studies on bands including Gang of Four, The Fall andthe Slits and labels like Rough Trade move sensitively between close reading,historical context and analysis of who made post-punk and how it was producedand mediated. The book examines, too, how the struggles of post-punk resonatedown to the present.
