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But Is It Garbage?: On Rock and Trash
Steven L Hamelman
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Description for But Is It Garbage?: On Rock and Trash
Hardcover. Trash has been blowing across the rock 'n' roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews. In this book, Steven L. Hamelman guides us across five decades of rock to explore the trash trope in all of its audible, visual, and emblematic power. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Trash has been blowing across the rock 'n' roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock's quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock's ""trash trope."" Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene - think of Woodstock's littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful mode of rock composition and criticism. It ... Read more
Trash has been blowing across the rock 'n' roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock's quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock's ""trash trope."" Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene - think of Woodstock's littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful mode of rock composition and criticism. It ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820325361
SKU
V9780820325361
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