Real Punks Don't Wear Black
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820327549 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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For this anthology, he's included everything from juvenile high school essays and silly college poetry to some extremely seasoned discussions of punk and hard rock. Readers can browse around and find their own favorite material. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Kogan has been writing about music for some 35 years—for his own blogs; for his zine, Why Music Sucks; as well as for Spin, Radio On and the Village Voice. . This collection is much like the music it describes: some polished, some ragged. "The bands that change me are the ones that win me over." Readers, beware: the raunchy rap lyrics and free-floating expletives may turn off some. Kogan is great, for instance, at explaining the dynamics of punk clubs: why the performers have to insult their audiences or else they're "contaminated" by their acceptance. Unlike most music c
THE Most Interesting and Intelligent Writing About Music Nan Booth I have been reading and enjoying Frank Kogan's work in the Village Voice for years. It is a distinct pleasure to read such thoughtful and thought-provoking articles. For example, Frank's observation about country & western as "split emotionally between a desire for home and family on the one hand and the urge to range wild and free on the other"
A key figure among music critics for his contentious, perceptive writings, Kogan has been contributing to the Village Voice and underground music publications since the early 1970s. The first book-length collection of his writing on music and culture, Real Punks Don't Wear Black samples the best of thirty-plus years of essays, reviews, and rants, and also includes new bits written specifically for this edition.If you’re after no more than backstage dish or a judgment on whether some song is &ldq
. Frank Kogan is the publisher and editor of the fanzine "Why Music Sucks." His work has also appeared in the "Village Voice," "Spin," "Radio On," "Cometbus," and ilXor