{"product_id":"9781349698073","title":"Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWilkinson, David\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the  Sex Pistols were breaking up, Britain was entering a new era. Punk’s filth and  fury had burned brightly and briefly; soon a new underground offered a more  sustained and constructive challenge. As future-focused, independently  released singles appeared in the wake of the Sex Pistols, there were high  hopes in magazines like \u003ci\u003eNME \u003c\/i\u003eand the  DIY fanzine media spawned by punk. \u003ci\u003ePost-Punk,  Politics and Pleasure in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e explores how post-punk’s politics  developed into the 1980s. Illustrating that the movement’s monochrome gloom  was illuminated by residual flickers of countercultural utopianism, it  situates post-punk in the ideological crossfire of a key political struggle of  the era: a battle over pleasure and freedom between emerging Thatcherism and  libertarian, feminist and countercultural movements dating back to the  post-war New Left. Case studies on bands including Gang of Four, The Fall and  the Slits and labels like Rough Trade move sensitively between close reading,  historical context and analysis of who made post-punk and how it was produced  and mediated. The book examines, too, how the struggles of post-punk resonate  down to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-12-05\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781349698073\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-49780-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 228\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752454123660,"sku":"9781349698073","price":29.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781349698073.jpg?v=1776688992","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781349698073","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}