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"As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes--identity, money, love, and protest--to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book that reads like...

Emerging from a scene credited with introducing the American public to punk rock in the early 1990s, Green Day was quick to establish themselves as the most vital of their peers, their major label debut 'Dookie' going on to sell 20 million copies. Over the next decade a series of massive selling albums, sold out world tours and an array of awards kept the group in the limelight. But the release of 2004's 'American Idiot' opened the band up to a whole...

Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy begins by tracing the migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism. The result has been a widespread fatalism over the presumed ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in hip hop and rock. Commercial "incorporation" supposedly makes a charade of musical outrage, somehow disconnecting anger in music from any meaning or significance....

Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film is an account of provocative and controversial representations of the Holocaust. Many well-known artists have attracted criticism for approaching the Nazi genocide in ways that have been deemed ill-conceived or offensive. Examples include Sylvia Plath's notorious claim that 'Every woman adores a Fascist' in her poem 'Daddy' and songs such as 'Belsen Was a Gas' by the Sex Pistols. The Holocaust...

Overview: Music has always been central to the cultures that Young people create, follow, and embrace. In the Sixties, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the Seventies, many young people ended up coming home in body bags from Vietnam, and the music scene changed, embracing punk and bands like The Sex Pistols. In Sells like Teen Spirit, Ryan Moore tells the story of how...