{"product_id":"what-is-post-punk-genre-and-identity-in-avant-garde-popular-music-1977-82-9780472039210","title":"What Is Post-Punk?: Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977-82","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mimi Haddon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Punk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopular music in the US and UK during the late 1970s and early 1980s was wildly eclectic and experimental. \"Post-punk,\" as it was retroactively labeled, could include electro-pop melodies, distorted guitars, avant-garde industrial sounds, and reggae beats, and thus is not an easily definable musical category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is Post-Punk?\u003c\/i\u003e combines a close reading of the late-1970s music press discourse with musical analyses and theories of identity to unpack post-punk's status as a genre. Mimi Haddon traces the discursive foundations of post-punk across publications such as \u003ci\u003eSounds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZigZag\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMelody Maker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e NME\u003c\/i\u003e, and presents case studies of bands including Wire, PiL, Joy Division, the Raincoats, and Pere Ubu. By positioning post-punk in relation to genres such as punk, new wave, dub, and disco, Haddon explores the boundaries of post-punk, and reveals it as a community of tastes and predilections rather than a stylistically unified whole. Haddon diversifies the discourse around post-punk, exploring both its gender and racial dynamics and its proto-industrial aesthetics to restore the historical complexity surrounding the genre's terms and origins.","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595829395607,"sku":"9780472039210","price":3130.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780472039210.webp?v=1774991359","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-is-post-punk-genre-and-identity-in-avant-garde-popular-music-1977-82-9780472039210","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}