Crass Reflections
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1909798223 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This monograph was written before the groundswell of punk scholarship in its wake and serves as vindication of its obscure and early importance. The broad thesis of the monograph interrogates links between critical theory and Frankfurt school perspectives on art and subversive culture and Neo Marxist accounts of their phylogeny. The central theme sets up and critically examines the need to examine the work of the anarchist punk band Crass in light of a poverty of discussion of their activities in previous cultural studies writings on punk. The monograph concludes with a discussion of the importance of the legacy of Crass and the need for future research. This book comprises an undergraduate monograph an essays written in the mid 1990s. It s principle importance lies in the fact that most accounts beyond this work have focussed not on critical theory but instead on historical contextual salience, aesthetic value and biographical detail.This new edition comprises a new extensive introduction assessing methodological approaches in punk scholarship and examines the stormy DiY publication and contextual history of the original monograph. There is critical discussion of the tension and similarities between Crass and Neo Marxist accounts of the role of dominant ideology (traditional notions of false consciousness/media effect) in contrast to the cultural monopoly of survival needs as the central motor