Review of: Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures, Sexton Jamie (2023) Univ... more Review of: Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures, Sexton Jamie (2023) University of Edinburgh Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978-1-47441-408-1, h/bk, £85.00 ISBN 978-1-47441-407-4, e-book, £85.00
This paper examines possible reasons for Michael Jackson's continued absence as a performer i... more This paper examines possible reasons for Michael Jackson's continued absence as a performer in America during the years before his death.
This chapter engages with punk and nostalgia and punk’s new role as an important site of cultural... more This chapter engages with punk and nostalgia and punk’s new role as an important site of cultural heritage by looking at two heritage events: Punk London, a yearlong set of events held at various iconic British venues in 2017, and Punk Rock Bowling, an annual festival of all things punk rock that was held in Las Vegas until 2019. The author argues that citing punk as being “as iconic to the UK’s heritage story as Stonehenge and the British Museum,” as the London event did, is especially peculiar, as the main target of early British punk’s ire was the English monarchy, and many early British punk gestures were intended to undermine hallowed British institutions such as the fashion industry, the BBC, and the monarchy. Both Punk London and Punk Rock Bowling give clear evidence that the heritage discourse has become a key element in generational identity formation, moving it away from imperialist history and closer to mediatized events in the recent past. This chapter also tries to acco...
... Kiss this: Punk in the present tense. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Arnold, Gina. PUB... more ... Kiss this: Punk in the present tense. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Arnold, Gina. PUBLISHER: St. ... Martin's Griffin edition. PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xv, 205 p. SUBJECT(S): Punk rock music; History and criticism. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
Review of: Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures, Sexton Jamie (2023) Univ... more Review of: Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures, Sexton Jamie (2023) University of Edinburgh Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978-1-47441-408-1, h/bk, £85.00 ISBN 978-1-47441-407-4, e-book, £85.00
This paper examines possible reasons for Michael Jackson's continued absence as a performer i... more This paper examines possible reasons for Michael Jackson's continued absence as a performer in America during the years before his death.
This chapter engages with punk and nostalgia and punk’s new role as an important site of cultural... more This chapter engages with punk and nostalgia and punk’s new role as an important site of cultural heritage by looking at two heritage events: Punk London, a yearlong set of events held at various iconic British venues in 2017, and Punk Rock Bowling, an annual festival of all things punk rock that was held in Las Vegas until 2019. The author argues that citing punk as being “as iconic to the UK’s heritage story as Stonehenge and the British Museum,” as the London event did, is especially peculiar, as the main target of early British punk’s ire was the English monarchy, and many early British punk gestures were intended to undermine hallowed British institutions such as the fashion industry, the BBC, and the monarchy. Both Punk London and Punk Rock Bowling give clear evidence that the heritage discourse has become a key element in generational identity formation, moving it away from imperialist history and closer to mediatized events in the recent past. This chapter also tries to acco...
... Kiss this: Punk in the present tense. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Arnold, Gina. PUB... more ... Kiss this: Punk in the present tense. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Arnold, Gina. PUBLISHER: St. ... Martin's Griffin edition. PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xv, 205 p. SUBJECT(S): Punk rock music; History and criticism. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
Chapter excerpt from "Death and The Rock Star," eds. Catherine Strong and Barbara LeBrun, Ashgate... more Chapter excerpt from "Death and The Rock Star," eds. Catherine Strong and Barbara LeBrun, Ashgate 2015.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so ju... more Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars - Jack Kerouac.
This book is the result of the desire to explore the American underground within their expressions of popular culture, whether by musical level or by literary level, both in terms of lifestyle and subcultures / countercultures. It lies in a deep desire for exploration and knowledge of the universe by reading the iconic book On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Over the past few years, we have been particularly concerned about the underground and the underground music scenes. The underground music scenes have since long been associated with strong DIY cultural practices (do-it-yourself). Consequently, maintaining a sociological reflection of registration, although we are open to all other social sciences, we intend to discuss the importance of underground artistic and musical practices in contemporary society, let it be for their volatility, or for its undeniable importance in urban youth culture. Urban musical cultures, in regard to the underground, are still considered illegitimate objects for analysis in connection with the contemporary social theory framing. However, these cultures play a central role in the functioning of the (post) music industry and in the emerging outlook on digital media. We also intend to clarify the musical scenes that cross contemporary cities, giving them rhythms, but also giving them specific forms of cultural identity and historical, social and artistic heritage. The only truth is music. Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view - Jack Kerouac. So, we gathered in this book a series of texts that transport us to a reflection on this American underground and its inspiring potential on new sociological approaches in contemporaneity. Chapter 1, entitled "Between psychadelia and artistic transgression: vanguards, proto-punk and experimentation musical" by Paula Guerra, reflects the importance of the musical universe of American bands (Cramps, Velvet Underground, the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, among others) from the 70s, in the affirmation of creative freedom, in proto-punk and territories as well as creative underground scenes. Chapter 2, entitled "Rock in a hard place" by Gina Arnold, takes us to a new reading in the 90's underground by transpositioning to a concert of the Ramones from that time and its links with the emerging grunge. Chapter 3, entitled "Minor Threat & 'Straight Edge’ “, by Ross Haenfler, explores and develops the experiences and ways of American straight edge hardcore life today, inspired by Minor Threat, transporting us to a reading as necessary as the current US counterculture manifestations. The remaining chapters equate the influence and importance of the American underground in the structuring of tastes, lifestyles and Portuguese music scenes through the Ramones and hardcore. Chapter 4 by Paula Guerra, addresses the representations of the Ramones and their significance next to a wide range of Portuguese punks "Let's take the Ramones! Preliminary data about the impact and influence of the Ramones in Portugal." Chapter 5, by Pedro Rios, deals with the appropriation of American hardcore in musical practices and manifestations in the universe of Portuguese punk in the early 2000s, and is entitled "Hardcore - Multiple levels". Chapter 6, entitled "'We are one voice'! A brief history of English hardcore and straight edge movement: protagonists, core values and DIY ethos ", by Ana Oliveira, considers some narratives of Portuguese hardcore straight edge participants, showing the influence of its principles and provisions. Finally, the chapter 7, entitled “Bibliographical catalogue” presents a selection of relevant bibliographical references for the social theory on underground. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious (…) because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars... - Jack Kerouac It cannot be left unsaid that this book stems from the research project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (PTDC / CS-SOC / 118830/2010) based at the University of Porto and funded by the Science and Technology Foundation. Something no less important relates to the American underground that also has a concrete translation at the University of Porto’s library through an exhibition that take place between 13th July and 13th September 2015. However, this is also an invitation to visit the exhibition and the library’s wonderful collection related to this field. There are many acknowledgments to be made in regards of the realization of this book, but in order of keeping this accessible, we highlight our thanks to four of them: to João Emanuel Leite and Isabel Leite by the possibility of realization of dreams; to Gina Arnold and Ross Haenfler, for their generous and genial contribution to the quality of the discussion around the American underground. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. (…) I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do - Jack Kerouac http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/13445.pdf
This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-... more This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has remained suspended between two distinct poles. On the one hand, the music video as the visual sheen of late capitalism, at the intersection of celebrity studies and postmodernism. On the other hand, the music video as art, looking to a prehistory of avant-garde film-making while perpetually pushing forward the digital frontier with a taste for anarchy, controversy, and the integration of special effects into a form designed to be disseminated across digital platforms. In this way, the music video virally re-engenders debates about high art and low culture. This collection presents a comprehensive account of the music video from a contemporary 21st century perspective. This entails revisiting key moments in the canonical history of the music video, exploring its articulations of sexuality and gender, examining its functioning as a form of artistic expression between music, film and video art, and following the music video’s dissemination into the digital domain, considering how digital media and social media have come to re-invent the forms and functions of the music video, well beyond the limits of “music television”.
Author Bios: Gina Arnold is Visiting Professor at the Evergreen State College in Washington. Daniel Cookney is Lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Salford, UK. Kirsty Fairclough is Director of International and Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK. Michael N. Goddard is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film, Television and Moving image at the University of Westminster, UK.
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This book is the result of the desire to explore the American underground within their expressions of popular culture, whether by musical level or by literary level, both in terms of lifestyle and subcultures / countercultures. It lies in a deep desire for exploration and knowledge of the universe by reading the iconic book On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Over the past few years, we have been particularly concerned about the underground and the underground music scenes. The underground music scenes have since long been associated with strong DIY cultural practices (do-it-yourself). Consequently, maintaining a sociological reflection of registration, although we are open to all other social sciences, we intend to discuss the importance of underground artistic and musical practices in contemporary society, let it be for their volatility, or for its undeniable importance in urban youth culture. Urban musical cultures, in regard to the underground, are still considered illegitimate objects for analysis in connection with the contemporary social theory framing. However, these cultures play a central role in the functioning of the (post) music industry and in the emerging outlook on digital media. We also intend to clarify the musical scenes that cross contemporary cities, giving them rhythms, but also giving them specific forms of cultural identity and historical, social and artistic heritage.
The only truth is music. Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view - Jack Kerouac.
So, we gathered in this book a series of texts that transport us to a reflection on this American underground and its inspiring potential on new sociological approaches in contemporaneity. Chapter 1, entitled "Between psychadelia and artistic transgression: vanguards, proto-punk and experimentation musical" by Paula Guerra, reflects the importance of the musical universe of American bands (Cramps, Velvet Underground, the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, among others) from the 70s, in the affirmation of creative freedom, in proto-punk and territories as well as creative underground scenes. Chapter 2, entitled "Rock in a hard place" by Gina Arnold, takes us to a new reading in the 90's underground by transpositioning to a concert of the Ramones from that time and its links with the emerging grunge. Chapter 3, entitled "Minor Threat & 'Straight Edge’ “, by Ross Haenfler, explores and develops the experiences and ways of American straight edge hardcore life today, inspired by Minor Threat, transporting us to a reading as necessary as the current US counterculture manifestations. The remaining chapters equate the influence and importance of the American underground in the structuring of tastes, lifestyles and Portuguese music scenes through the Ramones and hardcore. Chapter 4 by Paula Guerra, addresses the representations of the Ramones and their significance next to a wide range of Portuguese punks "Let's take the Ramones! Preliminary data about the impact and influence of the Ramones in Portugal." Chapter 5, by Pedro Rios, deals with the appropriation of American hardcore in musical practices and manifestations in the universe of Portuguese punk in the early 2000s, and is entitled "Hardcore - Multiple levels". Chapter 6, entitled "'We are one voice'! A brief history of English hardcore and straight edge movement: protagonists, core values and DIY ethos ", by Ana Oliveira, considers some narratives of Portuguese hardcore straight edge participants, showing the influence of its principles and provisions. Finally, the chapter 7, entitled “Bibliographical catalogue” presents a selection of relevant bibliographical references for the social theory on underground.
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious (…) because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars... - Jack Kerouac
It cannot be left unsaid that this book stems from the research project Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (PTDC / CS-SOC / 118830/2010) based at the University of Porto and funded by the Science and Technology Foundation. Something no less important relates to the American underground that also has a concrete translation at the University of Porto’s library through an exhibition that take place between 13th July and 13th September 2015. However, this is also an invitation to visit the exhibition and the library’s wonderful collection related to this field. There are many acknowledgments to be made in regards of the realization of this book, but in order of keeping this accessible, we highlight our thanks to four of them: to João Emanuel Leite and Isabel Leite by the possibility of realization of dreams; to Gina Arnold and Ross Haenfler, for their generous and genial contribution to the quality of the discussion around the American underground.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. (…) I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do - Jack Kerouac
http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/13445.pdf
Author Bios:
Gina Arnold is Visiting Professor at the Evergreen State College in Washington.
Daniel Cookney is Lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Salford, UK.
Kirsty Fairclough is Director of International and Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK.
Michael N. Goddard is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film, Television and Moving image at the University of Westminster, UK.