Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life

Name: Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life
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SKU: 9798765101322
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By Seth Kim-Cohen

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Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life challenges the nostalgic celebration of rock music, offering instead a critical analysis of how rock and roll actively disrupts postwar values. Seth Kim-Cohen explores seminal artists like Iggy Pop, James Brown, Patti Smith, the Last Poets, and the Sex Pistols, showing how their work upends modernist assumptions and late-stage capitalism by revealing a raw, untamed sensibility beneath the polished surface of modern life. The book connects rock and roll with conceptual art, Black power, and poststructuralism to uncover its rebellious, chaotic core.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in cultural criticism, music history, and theory, particularly those curious about the intersections of rock music, politics, and art. It suits academics, students, and thoughtful fans of music seeking a deeper understanding of rock and roll’s socio-political significance.

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No Boomeresque celebration of the "music that defined an era," Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life is instead a deeply critical analysis of rock and roll as a chaotic, caterwauling project to upend the foundational presumptions of postwar values.

What we have here is the closest thing yet to a unified field theory of rock and roll. In seminal performances, films, and recordings, Iggy Pop, James Brown, Patti Smith, the Last Poets, and the Sex Pistols disrupt the implicit ontologies of modernism and late-stage capitalism.

With its comrades, conceptual art, Black power, and poststructuralism, rock and roll strips back the linoleum surface of modern life to reveal a feral sensibility unwilling to be boxed up for clean consumption.

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Praised by American music critic Greil Marcus, the book is described as a clever, engaging work that pits figures like modernist critic Michael Fried and punk icon Iggy Pop in a metaphorical cage match, revealing unexpected connections between diverse artists and intellectual traditions. The writing is noted for its originality and delightfulness, offering readers a fresh perspective on rock and roll's cultural impact.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798765101322

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Seth Kim-Cohen is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. He is the author of Against Ambience and Other Essays (Bloomsbury, 2013), In the Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Bloomsbury, 2009), and One Reason to Live: Conversations About Music (2006). With his bands (names_of_music, The Fire Show, Number One Cup), he has released more than a dozen albums and performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. John Peel once bought him a beer.