Paperback / softback | |
January 15, 2004 | |
9780819566683 | |
English | |
355 | |
25 illus. | |
9.50 Inches (US) | |
6.25 Inches (US) | |
1.2 Pounds (US) | |
$29.95 USD, £23.50 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
False Prophet
Field Notes from the Punk Underground
From 1988 through 1993, guitarist/vocalist Steven Taylor toured the U.S. and Europe with the alternative rock group False Prophets, keeping a detailed journal with the intent of documenting the role of musicians in the international anarchist youth movement. His fieldnotes form the core of the book, accounting with honesty and aplomb the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing, always engaging highs and lows of life on the road.
False Prophet situates punk, and the diary itself, in relation to contemporary critiques of identity and ethnographic representation, and links punk's emergence to the oral poetry renaissance of the 1950s, free jazz, and the do-it-yourself trend set by underground filmmakers in the 1960s. This innovative ethnography provides a theoretically informed account of a little understood genre of popular music, and a rare, intimate view into the everyday life of a working band. The audio CD contains some of False Prophets' most popular cuts.
False Prophet situates punk, and the diary itself, in relation to contemporary critiques of identity and ethnographic representation, and links punk's emergence to the oral poetry renaissance of the 1950s, free jazz, and the do-it-yourself trend set by underground filmmakers in the 1960s. This innovative ethnography provides a theoretically informed account of a little understood genre of popular music, and a rare, intimate view into the everyday life of a working band. The audio CD contains some of False Prophets' most popular cuts.
About the Author
STEVEN TAYLOR is a musician, poet and ethnomusicologist; for twenty years, he was Allen Ginsberg's primary musical collaborator. Since 1984 he has been a member of the Fugs, a seminal poetry/rock group. He is Chair of the Department of Writing and Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado.
Reviews
"A sort of Das Kapital and Odyssey of anarcho-punk hardcore—theory, praxis, and plenty of head-banging. Ethnomusicologically speaking, a bloody masterpiece."—Hakim Bey, author of T.A.Z., the Temporary Autonomous Zone
Endorsements
"A sort of Das Kapital and Odyssey of anarcho-punk hardcore—theory, praxis, and plenty of head-banging. Ethnomusicologically speaking, a bloody masterpiece." —Hakim Bey, author of T.A.Z., the Temporary Autonomous Zone
"Steve Taylor brings to his music a steely discipline, brilliance and high-speed creativity delivered with fantastic precision and verve. He has brought that same panoply of skills to his scholarly yet accessible history of his experiences touring and creating with the band, The False Prophets. It's more than his own experiences, of course. Taylor reaches out through history for a complicated and very interesting examination of a phenomenon as old as the Poetics of Aristotle touring, performing, writing tunes and achieving community through living and sharing the life of a band."—Edward Sanders is the co-founder of the Fugs, the author of The Family (on the Manson group)
"Steve Taylor brings to his music a steely discipline, brilliance and high-speed creativity delivered with fantastic precision and verve. He has brought that same panoply of skills to his scholarly yet accessible history of his experiences touring and creating with the band, The False Prophets. It's more than his own experiences, of course. Taylor reaches out through history for a complicated and very interesting examination of a phenomenon as old as the Poetics of Aristotle touring, performing, writing tunes and achieving community through living and sharing the life of a band."—Edward Sanders is the co-founder of the Fugs, the author of The Family (on the Manson group)
Wesleyan University Press | |
Music / Culture | |
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Paperback / softback | |
January 15, 2004 | |
9780819566683 | |
English | |
355 | |
25 illus. | |
9.50 Inches (US) | |
6.25 Inches (US) | |
1.2 Pounds (US) | |
$29.95 USD, £23.50 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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