Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography and index.
Contents:
Outro. A new way to pay old debts. Part one: punk (adj.). "Raw power": protopunk transformations of the blues ; "Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool": reconsidering the avant-garde impulse in American punk ; "Pure rock and roll with no blues or folk or any of that stuff in it" -- Part two: punk (n.). Punk and the white Atlantic ; "Less art and more machine": the California crucible ; "Decisions with precisions": new directions for hardcore in Washington, DC -- Outro. A new way to pay old debts.
Summary:
"Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America's cities and suburbs in the postwar era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is captured in historical documents and revealed through musical analysis"--Provided by publisher.
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