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This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
This lively and entertaining revisionist history of rock music after 1970 reconsiders the roles of two genres, heavy metal and punk. Instead of considering metal and punk as aesthetically opposed to each other, Steve Waksman breaks new ground by showing that a profound connection exists between them. Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate relationship that informed bot...more
Paperback, 398 pages
Published
February 4th 2009
by University of California Press
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This is a highly informative, educational and entertaining look at how the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal and Punk music scenes of the 1970's and 80's evolved and have much more in common than one would initially think. The book also examines the diferences within these sub-cultures as well. Along the way you get great stories about Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, the Dictators, the Runaways, Motorhead, Black Flag, the near-simultaneous rise of SST and Metal Blade Records, Slayer, Nirvana an...more
Waksman demonstrates the formal give and take between metal and punk. He successfully illustrates that within the music itself there was always a dialogue between the two as opposed to the malignant verbal snowball fight took place within the media starting in the late 1970s. Not that said dialogue was always as hot as a teenage makeout session. In early chapters Waksman contrasts ideological strains by comparing artists: the Runaways vs. the Dictators; Iggy Pop vs. Alice Cooper. The word “grung...more
Surprised to get an academic book--I was unprepared for that given the Library Journal review and the casual title--, but it is surprisingly engaging so far even as it exhibits academic hallmarks like quoting previous experts or locating events or ideas within existing theoretical modes (or comparing them). Looks to be an intriguing bit of rock criticism, arguing that punk and metal are more alike than different. I was expecting an examination of the hatred between punks and metalheads from the...more
Pretty good intellectualizing about an anti-intellectual phenomenon.
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Waksman is associate professor of music and American studies at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. His research and teaching interests are in the history of U.S. popular music and popular culture during the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular focus on music technology, the musical production of identity, and live music performance in the public sphere. He earned his Ph.D. from the University...more
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