Format:
1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781501308727
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1623562449
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9781623562441
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9781623567309
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1623567300
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9781501308727
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1501308726
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9781623565008
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1623565006
Series Statement:
33 1/3 105
Content:
I don't need this fucking world -- Mellow out or you will pay -- The sun beams down on a brand new day -- It's time to taste what you most fear -- There's no way like the American way.
Content:
"In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools gave way to the madness of the Jonestown massacre and the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk at the hands of their former colleague, Dan White. In the year that followed this season of insanity, it made sense that a band called Dead Kennedys played Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach, referring to Governor Jerry Brown as a fascist, calling for landlords to be lynched and yuppie gentrifiers to be sent to Cambodia to work for a bowl of rice a day, critiquing government welfare and defense policies, and, at a time when each week seemed to bring news of a new serial killer or child abduction, commenting on dead and dying children. But it made sense only (or primarily) to those who were there, to those who experienced the heyday of the Mab. Most histories of the 1970s and 1980s ignore youth politics and subcultures. Drawing on Bay Area zines as well as new interviews with the band and many key figures from the early San Francisco punk scene, Michael Stewart Foley corrects that failing by treating Dead Kennedys first record, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, as a critical historical document, one that not only qualified as political expression but, whether experienced on vinyl or from the stage of the Mab, stimulated emotions and ideals that were, if you can believe it, utopian."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1623562449
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Foley, Michael S Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015 ISBN 1623562449
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501308727
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501308727?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyPopularMusic
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