English 2017 Lecture 22: lecture 22

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Riley Mc Donald

Document Summary

Lecture 22: get pissed, destroy the sub/counterculture of punk. Somewhat bridges the gap between sub and counterculture. Style is the most immediate location of a subculture and it is also the most recognizable and where the most critical work get done by producers and observers. Needs to be a practice for a sub/counterculture to express itself. Question of whether it can sustain itself if all it is doing is trying to be the objection to. Pu(cid:374)k (cid:449)e(cid:859)(cid:396)e looki(cid:374)g at toda(cid:455) is a(cid:271)out (cid:374)egatio(cid:374) everything main culture stands for, is there anything to build upon. Focusing on british punk of late 1970s: clearest articulation of overt negative depiction of punk. Many types of punk in the world. Video (cid:862)i (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to (cid:271)e a(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:272)h(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:862)a(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:272)h(cid:455) i(cid:374) the uk(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) the se(cid:454) pistols. Punk is a fashion, attitudinal, political style involves more than just the music but that is our main orientation point to understand it.