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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk : 1974-1982 Paperback Nicholas Romb
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- Book Title
- A Cultural Dictionary of Punk : 1974-1982 Paperback Nicholas Romb
- ISBN
- 9780826427793
- Subject Area
- Music
- Publication Name
- Cultural Dictionary of Punk : 1974-1982
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Subject
- Genres & Styles / Punk, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Item Weight
- 18.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826427790
ISBN-13
9780826427793
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71115592
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Cultural Dictionary of Punk : 1974-1982
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Genres & Styles / Punk, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2008-045223
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ml3918.R63r66 2009
Reviews
&"An expansive, erudite, and hugely entertaining guide through the dark alleys and glittering byways of punkin music, film, literature, politics, fashionA Cultural Dictionary of Punk is essential reading for anyone fascinated by one of the most influential artistic movements of our time.&" Elizabeth Hand, author of Generation Loss, "Nicholas Rombes answers many of the questions I didn't know I had... It's about time someone wrote a textbook on these things." The Rumpus, "I take a little notebook wherever I go -- I'm sure some of you do this, too -- so that anytime I hear about a cool film or something I should check out, I can jot it down immediately. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is like a compilation of everything I've scribbled in little notebooks over the last 15 years. ...Much has been written on the subject, but this well-researched and respectful title is one book that should be appreciated, not rejected, by today's punk scene." -Whitney Matheson, USA Today's PopCandy, Rombes, the author of works on punk musicians and cinema, here examines punk as a cultural movement through A-to-Z entries drawing upon fanzines, magazines, and newspapers to place media and artists in the context of history. In the author's own words, he has &"allowed the content of the entries to determine their shape, format and tone.&" The result is an eclectic examination of the punk movement as well as the cultural and historical issues surrounding it. The book concludes with a postscript analyzing the end of the punk movement in 1982. BOTTOM LINE: The author's love and knowledge of the punk era shines throughout the work. There are several other books on punk, but this one's focus on the general historical and cultural perspective of the movement, as well as its accessible and informal style, makes it a worthy addition to the literature. An excellent overview of the era for any library. Library Journal, "Rombes has assembled a proudly subjective collection of touchstones through which he attempts to discern, if not a definition of "punk," then at least some semblance of its signifiers' import in his own sense of self. ...Even while assembling texts and quoting from wide and varied sources, what Rombes does more than anything is provide evidence "evidence and validation that this thing punk is as significant to the world at large as it is to him." -The Agit Reader, &"I take a little notebook wherever I go -- I'm sure some of you do this, too -- so that anytime I hear about a cool film or something I should check out, I can jot it down immediately. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is like a compilation of everything I've scribbled in little notebooks over the last 15 years. ...Much has been written on the subject, but this well-researched and respectful title is one book that should be appreciated, not rejected, by today's punk scene.&" -Whitney Matheson, USA Today's PopCandy, &"Part guide, part archive (there are many images from the era never before reprinted), part postmodern study... [A Cultural Dictionary of Punk] is far more punk than its academic title lets on.&" -The Rumpus, &"After a first read, I now know that A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982 will be for me a traveling companion, a friend, for the rest of the way. Author Nicholas Rombes makes the dictionary format yield the urgency, brevity, and speedy darkness of Punk as a musical method, Punk as a cultural necessity. But the book is really a love letter, proud, bitter, flabbergasted, and true. His subjectivity serves him, and the reader, well. Start with his stuff on The Clash, The Ramones, Nirvana (yes: punk), Sixties, punk as a rejection of . . . . Rombes makes you want to write your own dark dictionary. Do it. Do it fast. &" -S.X. Rosenstock, a poet and writer for the Huffington Post, At a cursory glance, Rombes's compendium has the form of a dictionary, covering punk bands from the Adolescents to the Zeroes, but scratch the surface and you'll discover a profoundly weird document, where the notion of "punk" expands to include discussions of Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Barry Hannah "although even Rombes admits the last is stretching the point. The tone veers from the academic to the confessional: "How can you hesitate about a song that has saved you more than once from the black depths you are prone to fall into?" Rombes asks in an entry concerning the British band Wire. There are several forays into the fictional, including stories about imagined versions of Patti Smith and Joey Ramone, as well as entries written by "Ephraim P. Noble," who is almost certainly a fictional alter ego. If it were touted as a definitive guide to punk culture, the dictionary's omissions would be glaring "but this is something altogether different: a personal investigation into the significance of punk rock, an attempt to inject critical studies with "a big dose of chaos and anarchy" and thereby create a compelling cultural narrative. --Publishers Weekly, &"Rombes has assembled a proudly subjective collection of touchstones through which he attempts to discern, if not a definition of "punk," then at least some semblance of its signifiers' import in his own sense of self. ...Even while assembling texts and quoting from wide and varied sources, what Rombes does more than anything is provide evidence �evidence and validation that this thing punk is as significant to the world at large as it is to him.&" -The Agit Reader, "Any dictionary which includes entries on X Ray Spex Germ Free Adolescents alongside Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow just has to be worth a read. And it is. And you should. Read it that is." Total Music, January 2010., "Rombes launches arguments and counterarguments...that make the selections of his "dictionary" as provocative as Jon Savage in England's Dreaming. ...A challenging lexicography." Record Collector, &"Rombes makes A Cultural Dictionary important by clearly writing about the weird marginal forces that swirled into CREEM -reading,all night donut shop youth haunted Ohio at the end of the Vietnam warera, and editing out a ton of stuff called "punk" in the years since1982.&" -KEXP, Seattle, "Rombes makes A Cultural Dictionary important by clearly writing about the weird marginal forces that swirled into CREEM-reading,all night donut shop youth haunted Ohio at the end of the Vietnam warera, and editing out a ton of stuff called "punk" in the years since1982." -KEXP, Seattle, "An expansive, erudite, and hugely entertaining guide through the dark alleys and glittering byways of punk--in music, film, literature, politics, fashion--A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is essential reading for anyone fascinated by one of the most influential artistic movements of our time." --Elizabeth Hand, author of Generation Loss, Rombes, the author of works on punk musicians and cinema, here examines punk as a cultural movement through A-to-Z entries drawing upon fanzines, magazines, and newspapers to place media and artists in the context of history. In the author's own words, he has "allowed the content of the entries to determine their shape, format and tone." The result is an eclectic examination of the punk movement as well as the cultural and historical issues surrounding it. The book concludes with a postscript analyzing the end of the punk movement in 1982. BOTTOM LINE: The author's love and knowledge of the punk era shines throughout the work. There are several other books on punk, but this one's focus on the general historical and cultural perspective of the movement, as well as its accessible and informal style, makes it a worthy addition to the literature. An excellent overview of the era for any library. --Library Journal, "After a first read, I now know that A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982 will be for me a traveling companion, a friend, for the rest of the way. Author Nicholas Rombes makes the dictionary format yield the urgency, brevity, and speedy darkness of Punk as a musical method, Punk as a cultural necessity. But the book is really a love letter, proud, bitter, flabbergasted, and true. His subjectivity serves him, and the reader, well. Start with his stuff on The Clash, The Ramones, Nirvana (yes: punk), Sixties, punk as a rejection of . . . . Rombes makes you want to write your own dark dictionary. Do it. Do it fast. " -S.X. Rosenstock, a poet and writer for the Huffington Post, "Rombes makes A Cultural Dictionary important by clearly writing about the weird marginal forces that swirled into CREEM -reading,all night donut shop youth haunted Ohio at the end of the Vietnam warera, and editing out a ton of stuff called "punk" in the years since1982." -KEXP, Seattle, "Nicholas Rombes answers many of the questions I didn't know I had... It's about time someone wrote a textbook on these things." --The Rumpus, "Nearly all the dictionary entries dealing with Cleveland, Ohio and New York City and their denizens (Pere Ubu, The Eels, Peter Laughner, Dead Boys in the former; Ramones, Patti Smith, Richard Hell in the latter) are tremendously evocative..." The Wire, December 2009, "I'm obsessed with Nicholas Rombes' amazing book, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk from Continuum Books, and carry it everywhere." --The Huffington Post "The cover is perfect; no one person has a hold on punk, so no one person could ever be the face for it (Sid Vicious be damned!). http://new.flavorwire.com/196081/some-of-our-favorite-punk-book-covers/2" --Flavorpill ""Rombes launches arguments and counterarguments...that make the selections of his "dictionary" as provocative as Jon Savage in England's Dreaming. ...A challenging lexicography."Record Collector" --Ian Abrahams, At a cursory glance, Rombes's compendium has the form of a dictionary, covering punk bands from the Adolescents to the Zeroes, but scratch the surface and you'll discover a profoundly weird document, where the notion of "punk" expands to include discussions of Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Barry Hannah �although even Rombes admits the last is stretching the point. The tone veers from the academic to the confessional: "How can you hesitate about a song that has saved you more than once from the black depths you are prone to fall into?" Rombes asks in an entry concerning the British band Wire. There are several forays into the fictional, including stories about imagined versions of Patti Smith and Joey Ramone, as well as entries written by "Ephraim P. Noble," who is almost certainly a fictional alter ego. If it were touted as a definitive guide to punk culture, the dictionary's omissions would be glaring �but this is something altogether different: a personal investigation into the significance of punk rock, an attempt to inject critical studies with "a big dose of chaos and anarchy" and thereby create a compelling cultural narrative. Publishers Weekly, The cover is perfect; no one person has a hold on punk, so no one person could ever be the face for it (Sid Vicious be damned!). http://new.flavorwire.com/196081/some-of-our-favorite-punk-book-covers/2, "Part guide, part archive (there are many images from the era never before reprinted), part postmodern study... [A Cultural Dictionary of Punk] is far more punk than its academic title lets on." -The Rumpus, 'I'm obsessed with Nicholas Rombes' amazing book, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk from Continuum Books, and carry it everywhere.'
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