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False Prophet
Steven Taylor
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Description for False Prophet
Paperback. An account of the highs and lows of life on the road, "False Prophet" situates punk in relation to contemporary critiques of identity and ethnographic representation and provides a theoretically informed account of a little understood genre of popular music. Series: Music Culture S. Num Pages: 355 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: AVGU; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 581.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
355
Condition
New
Series
Music Culture S.
Number of Pages
355
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819566683
SKU
V9780819566683
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