
Strangled - Identity, Status, Structure and The Stranglers
Phil Knight(Author)
Zero Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-1-78279-797-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses. They are somehow "outside" the realm of what responsible accounts of the period consider to be worthy of chronicling. Why is this so? Certainly The Stranglers' seedy and intimidating demeanor, and well-deserved reputation for misogyny and violence, offer a superficial explanation for their cultural excommunication. However, this landmark work suggests that the unsettling aura that permeated the group and their music had much more profound origins; ones that continue to have disturbing implications even today. The Stranglers, it argues, continue to be marginalised because, whether by accident or design, they brought to the fore the underlying issues of identity, status and structure that must by necessity be hidden from society's conscious awareness. For this, they would not be forgiven.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
190 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78279-797-5 (9781782797975)
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Phil Knight is a professional engineer who may well have built and installed the escalator you are standing on as you read this from your tablet. He lives in Cambridgeshire, UK.