ENGL 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Punk Ideologies, Aristocracy, Bourgeoisie
14 Apr 2017
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Style, refusal and rejection, small scale, deviance, antagonism, subversion, Diy, urgency and immediacy, impotence and power, anti-music and anti- As a practice and a set of values, punk helps to explain much of the defiant tone of the memoir. But there is more going on than this, this is not just a memoir of one person"s desire to reject cultural norms; it is also about creating alternatives to what. Nor is the book just an expression of punk culture, punk values and aesthetics are found throughout it but the memoir has ambitions that are more than just pissing people off and alienating oneself/others. Rejection is often a way of refusing something, but it might also be a way of provoking thought. We know from hearing some of pearson"s music and from reading about the concerts he is involved in, that he is quite willing to provoke an audience. Why someone rejects something might be undertaken for any numbers of reason.
