Books by Jon Savage
“It tells the story of the Sex Pistols formation and their demise, but also shows how many punk offspring the Sex Pistols had in Britain in the late 1970s and beyond in the 1980s.” Read more...
The best books on Punk Rock (in 80s America)
Kevin Mattson, Historian
Interviews where books by Jon Savage were recommended
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England's Dreaming, Revised Edition: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
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2
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus -
3
Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (33 1/3)
by Michael Foley -
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We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
by Stacy Russo -
5
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
by John Patrick Diggins
The best books on Punk Rock (in 80s America), recommended by Kevin Mattson
The best books on Punk Rock (in 80s America), recommended by Kevin Mattson
Punk is more than just a musical genre. It is an ethos. Channelling one’s anger against the triteness of the culture industry’s offerings can be a spontaneous and creative act of resistance and rebellion. Moreover, as Kevin Mattson shows in this selection of books about punk in the 1980s in America, attending a rock concert by a band like the Dead Kennedys was a formative political experience for a generation of citizens, akin to attending a rally or a party convention. It was a spirit of constructive anarchy that can still channel the political anger of the alienated in the 21st century.
