MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Lester Bangs, Sursum Corda, Public Image Ltd
8 Sep 2017
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Could no longer relate to audience: punk came out as a rebellion against this. & gritty performance style: highly influential for the ramones. Conservatism in nyc punk: according to james wolcott, how is the punk scene driven by a conversative impulse , conservatism is often associated with political terms here we"re seeing conversation applied to a musical aesthetic. How might we think of punk being conservative in relation to other genres: punk was rejecting excess, virtuosity, punk wanted to do a back-to-basics revival of rock. Johnny ramone was a proud conservative for his entire life. 1950s-era rock (although the ramones would hate being compared to chuck berry) Punk crosses the atlantic: like nyc punk, the british punk scene was driven by a disdain for the bourgeois hedonism of rock superstars, nyc punk (velvet underground, stooges) --> restoring rock to its initial simplicity.
