The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses. They are somehow outside the realm of what responsible accounts of the period consider to be worthy of chronicling. Why is this so? Certainly The Stranglers' seedy and intimidating demeanor, and well-deserved reputation for misogyny and violence, offer a superficial explanation for their cultural excommunication. However, this landmark work suggests that the unsettling aura that permeated the group and their music had much more profound origins; ones that continue to have disturbing implications even today. The Stranglers, it argues, continue to be marginalised because, whether by accident or design, they brought to the fore the underlying issues of identity, status and structure that must by necessity be hidden from society's conscious awareness. For this, they would not be forgiven.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
ISBN-13
9781782797975
eBay Product ID (ePID)
213289564
Product Key Features
Book Title
Strangled-Identity, Status, Structure and the Stranglers
Author
Phil Knight
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
215mm
Item Width
141mm
Item Weight
218g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Phil Knight
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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