Michael Blair, Joe Bucciero

Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated to cult status among post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to the band's singular approach and response to punk rock. Instead of employing overt political ideology and abrasive sounds to rebel against the status quo, Young Marble Giants filled their songs with restraint, ambiguity, and silence. The trio opened up their music to new sounds and ideas that redefined punk's rules of rebellion.
Where did their rebellious ideas and impulses come from? By tracing Colossal Youth's artistic origins from Ancient Greece to the 20th-century avant-garde, Michael Blair and Joe Bucciero uncover the intricacies of Young Marble Giants' idiosyncratic take on music in the post-punk age. Emerging from the gaps in between the notes are new ways of hearing the history of punk, the political and economic turbulence of the late 1970s, and the world that surrounds us right now.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501321153
• Artikelnr.: 48420913

Autorenporträt

Michael Blair is a writer born in St. Louis and based in New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University, and his writing on music, film, and art has been published by AdHoc, The Brooklyn Rail, Double Exposure, and others.

Inhaltsangabe

Track ListingAcknowledgements1. For You are Movement.2. Eaten Out of House and Home3. Everything Comes from Chaos4. Showing the Way to Go5. The World is Not You6. Let's Be a Tree7. Don't Label Me8. Sit at Home and Watch the Tube9. No Rain Outside10. Blind as the Fate Decrees11. The Editors Agree12. They Were Good, They Were Young13. ...and That is NothingBibliographyEndnotes

Rezensionen

Fans of this album - and it is a great one - should find something to chew on here. Buzz Magazine