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Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style (Studies in the Fine Arts Avant-Garde)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #2787844 in Books
- Published on: 1989-10
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 152 pages
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not worth it
I can't believe the cost of this tiny book (listed at [price]!). It is very very brief, and very very dry. It glosses over and over simplifies a lot, to the detriment of anyone trying to understand punk.There's almost no mention of politics, for instance. Does have some song lyrics and sheet music, but big deal. The clinical approach is obsessive. I suppose the brevity could be useful in some cases if accompanied by other material.
Ch 1 - Velvet Underground
Ch 2 - Glitter Rock
Ch 3 - CBGBs
Ch 4 - Sex Pistols (the worst one)
Ch 5 - Zines
Overly-academic, but not uninformed
I disagree with the assumption in the other Amazon reviews that Trisha Henry was an uninformed outsider, looking in on punk and getting it all wrong... She's just an academic, fercrissakes, writing for an academic audience!! I'm sure she was just as punk as you are, it's just that when you're writing your graduate thesis (which is what this book originally was) you kinda have to be a bit, um, academic. She does an admirable job translating the anti-authoritarian, pro-artist ethos of punk into scholarly jargon -- the trouble with this book isn't that she didn't know what she was talking about, it's just that hearing it all expalined so clinically is nowhere near as fun as playing a Sex Pistols album at full blast. It's worth checking out, if you want to see how DIY translates into PhD.
Overly-academic, but not uninformed
I disagree with the assumption in the other Amazon reviews that Trisha Henry was an uninformed outsider, looking in on punk and getting it all wrong... She's just an academic, fercrissakes, writing for an academic audience!! I'm sure she was just as punk as you are, it's just that when you're writing your graduate thesis (which is what this book originally was) you kinda have to be a bit, um, academic. She does an admirable job translating the anti-authoritarian, pro-artist ethos of punk into scholarly jargon -- the trouble with this book isn't that she didn't know what she was talking about, it's just that hearing it all expalined so clinically is nowhere near as fun as playing a Sex Pistols album at full blast. It's worth checking out, if you want to see how DIY translates into PhD.
