This dissertation is a genre study of the non-mainstream, Anglo-American genre of popular music known as post-punk. I analyse the music of artists such as Public Image Ltd., Joy Division, Wire, Gang of Four, and the Raincoats, focussing specifically on their incorporation of musical idioms from the genres dub-reggae and disco. I also unravel the role of women musicians within this genre, and attend to post-punk’s aesthetic connection to industrial music, industrial images, and avant-garde aesthetics. I am particularly concerned with the role played by the rock media in shaping the genre’s discourse and aesthetic criteria. I employ a multidisciplinary methodology, drawing from musicology, communication studies, theories of genre, post-coloni...
Thesis (Ph.D.), American Studies, Washington State UniversityThis work examines the aesthetics of tr...
An investigation into the historical and modern role of punk in American culture. Ethnographic study...
This thesis uses the ‘rave’ subculture as a route into an analysis of literary representations of a ...
Popular music in the US and UK during the late 1970s and early 1980s was wildly eclectic and experim...
Goth was a subculture derived from England’s punk movement, and it served as a pessimistic cultural ...
This project explores British post-punk music of the late 1970s. It examines the subtle and explicit...
This dissertation traces the history of punk rock and the birth and progression of the “punk ethos,”...
‘Post-punk’ has been defined in a variety of ways, with some writers viewing it primarily as a reac...
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capita...
This dissertation documents and theorizes cases of 'heavy' music production in terms of their unique...
International audienceA kinship links the industrial/post-industrial movement to the punk/post-punk ...
This thesis aims to investigate the way in which anarchism - both as a means of theoretical politica...
Numerous well-known popular musicians were educated within art schools (AS) through an era where the...
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capita...
This comparative dissertation explores the new moral politics of authenticity emerging in the Wester...
Thesis (Ph.D.), American Studies, Washington State UniversityThis work examines the aesthetics of tr...
An investigation into the historical and modern role of punk in American culture. Ethnographic study...
This thesis uses the ‘rave’ subculture as a route into an analysis of literary representations of a ...
Popular music in the US and UK during the late 1970s and early 1980s was wildly eclectic and experim...
Goth was a subculture derived from England’s punk movement, and it served as a pessimistic cultural ...
This project explores British post-punk music of the late 1970s. It examines the subtle and explicit...
This dissertation traces the history of punk rock and the birth and progression of the “punk ethos,”...
‘Post-punk’ has been defined in a variety of ways, with some writers viewing it primarily as a reac...
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capita...
This dissertation documents and theorizes cases of 'heavy' music production in terms of their unique...
International audienceA kinship links the industrial/post-industrial movement to the punk/post-punk ...
This thesis aims to investigate the way in which anarchism - both as a means of theoretical politica...
Numerous well-known popular musicians were educated within art schools (AS) through an era where the...
What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capita...
This comparative dissertation explores the new moral politics of authenticity emerging in the Wester...
Thesis (Ph.D.), American Studies, Washington State UniversityThis work examines the aesthetics of tr...
An investigation into the historical and modern role of punk in American culture. Ethnographic study...
This thesis uses the ‘rave’ subculture as a route into an analysis of literary representations of a ...