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Author Rombes, Nicholas.

Title A cultural dictionary of punk : 1974-1982 / Nicholas Rombes
Published New York, N.Y. : Continuum, [2009]
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Contents The 400 Blows -- Adolescents -- Adverts -- Against Method -- Agnew, Spiro -- Alternative Ulster -- Anarchy is Dead -- Angry Young Men -- Art and Fear -- Art of Noise -- Futurist manifesto -- Art Rock -- Ashbery, John -- Ask the Dust -- Avengers -- Bad Brains -- Bad Taste in 1974 -- Balm, Trixie A -- Bangs, Lester -- Biafra: 6,591 votes (3%)!! -- Blank1 -- Blank2 -- Blank3 -- Blank Generation -- Blank Generation -- Beat Generation -- The Bloody Chamber -- Boredom -- Brando, Marlon -- British National Front -- Buffalo, New York -- Callaghan, James: Prime Minister of Great Britain -- Carter, Jimmy -- Carter, Jimmy-and the new wave -- Cassidy and Bangs in 1977 -- Cindy -- Cities, decay and beauty of -- Clash, the -- Class -- Cleveland, Ohio -- Compact audio cassette -- Cooper, Alice -- Cox, Alex -- C.P.O. Sharkey -- Punk Rock Sharkey -- Cramps: Live at Napa State Mental Hospital -- Criticism, rock -- Dancing -- Death of Punk -- Dead Boys -- Demics, the -- Destroy All Monsters -- Dhalgren -- Dickies -- Dictators -- Dils -- Diodes -- Dogs -- John Rock n Roll Sinclair -- John Sinclair -- Dot Dash -- Down-and-out during the punk era, the fun of being -- East Village Eye -- Eater -- Ejectors -- Electric eels -- Entertainment! -- Experts Propose Study of Craze -- Feelies -- Fifties, nostalgia for -- The Foreigner -- Frankie Teardrop -- Full Speed Ahead -- Further Temptations -- Generation X -- Germs -- Germ Free Adolescents -- Gibson, William -- Glass, Philip -- Going Underground -- Graham, Bill -- Gravitys Rainbow -- Great Jones Street -- Gulcher -- Gunning for Sex Pistols -- The Gun Rubber -- Hannah, Barry -- Happy Birthday, Stephanie -- Headlines, 1977 -- Helen Keller -- Hermans Hermits -- High-Rise -- Hippies, Johnny Rotten comments about -- Horror Business -- Horses -- How Could I -- I Got You Babe -- The Ice Age -- Implied velocity -- I waste hours keeping my soul out of the cauldron -- I'm OK You're OK -- Jarmusch, Jim -- Jim Basnight and the Moberlys -- Jungle Rot -- Keep Yours Dreams -- Kentucky Fried Movie -- L.A. Punk -- Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains -- La Guardia, Fiorello Henry -- Leon, Craig -- Lowell, Robert -- Mtv -- Mad Magazine, punk and -- Marbles -- Meltzer, Richard -- The Menace and Charm of Punk Rock -- Milk n Cookies -- Minimalism -- Mistakism -- Mo-dettes -- The most absurd year in the history of rock n roll -- Neat, Neat, Neat -- Nervous Breakdown -- Nervus Rex -- New Dark Ages -- New Music, The -- The New Wave -- New Wave Theatre -- New Way -- Nirvana -- Nixon, Richard -- Nobodys Heroes -- Non Compos Mentis -- No Policy -- No Wave -- Normals -- Nostalgia -- Notes on the New American Cinema -- Not exactly what you would consider melodic -- Nuns -- Oblique Strategies -- Only Ones -- Ottawa Today -- Out of Vogue -- Outsider, The -- Pagans -- Paint it Black -- Para Punk Cinema -- Patti -- Penetrators -- Pere Ubu -- Pettibon, Raymond -- Police State -- Punk, alternate meanings of -- Punk, as honored -- Punk is inconceivable without the bleak failure of the Sixties -- Punk, its influence on something other than music or fashion -- Punk rock is a put on -- Punk Rock: the arrogant underbelly of Sixties pop -- Punk Rock Rises Again!!, Creem headline -- Punk Root -- Question of Degree, A -- Radio On -- Radio Wunderbar -- Raincoats -- Ramones (1974- ) -- Ramone, Joey (and Joey Miserable and the Worms) -- Ramones, the first album in ten tracks -- Ramones, as trivial -- As great -- Ramones, first lines of songs on first three albums -- Reagan, Ronald -- Read About Seymour -- Real Life -- Rebel Without a Cause -- Receiving End -- Rent Act -- Rimbaud, Arthur -- Road Warrior, The -- Rocket from the Tombs, four sentences about -- Rocket from the Tombs, two songs by -- Rockwell, John -- Rombes, Kori Ann -- Saints -- Screamers -- SCUM Manifesto -- Second Extermination Nite -- See No Evil -- Self-referential, punk as -- Seventeen -- Shirkers -- Shivvers -- Short-lived fad, a -- Singles reviewed -- Sister Ray -- Sixties, punk as a rejection of -- Sixties, punk as an affirmation of -- Six Million Dollar Man, The -- Skunks -- Sleepers -- Slits -- Slouching Towards Bethlehem -- So Cold -- Social threat of punk, the -- Somethings happening -- Sonic Reducer -- Sonic Youth -- Speedies -- Spheeris, Penelope -- Spock, Benjamin -- Starburn: The Story of Jenni Love -- Static Disposal -- Sterling, Linder -- Still bewildered by the death machine -- Stooges -- Strange -- Student Teachers -- Suicide -- Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) -- Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) -- Target Video -- Teen Idles -- Thats Entertainment -- The music is primal, mindless, without climaxes -- The ongoing force of me -- Theoretical Girls -- Theory, punk as a form of -- There are Only Three Rock Groups in America -- There is nothing inherently wonderful about starkness -- The Worlds a Mess -- Its In My Kiss -- Troggs -- Truth about punk, the -- TV Babies -- Undertones -- Vast Majority -- Vertigo -- Vibrators -- Vietnam War -- Viletones -- Vinyl -- Wallace and Ladmo Show, the -- Warhol, Andy -- Weirdos -- When Youre Young -- Whistle Punk -- Who Killed Bambi? -- Why? -- Write Down Your Number -- Xerox Days -- Zeros
Summary "A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is organized around scores of distinct entries, on everything from Lester Bangs to The Slits, from Jimmy Carter to Minimalism, from 'Dot Dash' to Bad Brains."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Punk rock music -- Social aspects
Punk rock music -- History and criticism.
Punk rock music -- Dictionaries
Rock music -- 1971-1980.
Rock music -- 1981-1990.
Rock & Pop music.
Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Punk rock music
Rock music
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441105059
1441105050