Art punk
| Art punk | |
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| Stylistic origins | Art rock, protopunk, experimental rock, Krautrock, punk rock |
| Cultural origins | Mid 1970s, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland |
| Typical instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard |
| Mainstream popularity | Mostly underground |
| Other topics | |
| Post-hardcore (list of bands) Post-punk (list of bands) |
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Art punk or avant punk refers to post-punk music of an experimental bent, or with connections to art school, the art world, or the avant garde.
The earliest bands to be described as "art-punk" were bands from the New York scene of the mid 1970s such as the New York Dolls, Television, Ramones, and Patti Smith.[1] Bands such as Wire (most of whom had been art students),[2] and The Ex, who have incorporated jazz, noise and ethnic music into their punk rock sound, took elements from the avant garde and were described as "avant-punk".[3][4] Later band such as Dog Faced Hermans followed a similar path.[5] The No Wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s is seen as a branch of art punk,[6][7] and was described by Martin Rev of Suicide as "a valid avant-garde extension of rock".[8] Other bands described as "art punk" include Fugazi,[9] and Goes Cube.[10] Crass have also been described as art-punk due to their incorporation of other art forms into their performances.[11]
In their book Art into Pop, Simon Frith and Howard Horne described the band managers of the 1970s punk bands as "the most articulate theorists of the art punk movement", with Bob Last of Fast Product identified as one of the first to apply art theory to marketing, and Tony Wilson's Factory Records described as "applying the Bauhaus principle of the same 'look' for all the company's goods".[12] Anna Szemere traces the beginnings of the Hungarian art-punk subculture to 1978, when punk band The Spions performed three concerts which drew on conceptualist performance art and Antonin Artaud's "theatre of cruelty", with neo-avant garde/anarchist manifestos handed out to the audience.[13] Wire's Colin Newman described art punk in 2006 as "the drug of choice of a whole generation."[2]
[edit] Art/Avant punk artists
- A Frames[14]
- Art Brut[15]
- Glenn Branca[16]
- Crass[17]
- Daughters[18]
- Devo[19]
- DNA[16]
- Dog Faced Hermans[5]
- The Fall[20]
- Gang of Four[21][22]
- Richard Hell[23][24]
- Ikara Colt[25]
- The Monochrome Set[26]
- No Age[27]
- Pere Ubu[6]
- Pylon[28]
- The Death Set[29]
- The Raincoats[30][22]
- The Rakes[31]
- The Rapture[32]
- Scratch Acid[33]
- Scritti Politti[30][22]
- Talking Heads[34]
- Гражданская оборона[30][22]
- Wire[35]
[edit] References
- ^ Desrosiers, Mark "25 Up: Punk's Silver Jubilee - Aesthetic Anesthetic: Liberating the Punk Canon", PopMatters
- ^ a b Newman, Colin (2006) "Wire: the art-punk band's journey and legacy", The Independent, 17 February 2006
- ^ "Holland's Avant-punk Heroes"
- ^ "The Ex: 27 years of Dutch art-punk"
- ^ a b Strong, Martin C.: "The Great Alternative & Indie Discography", 1999, Canongate, ISBN 0-86241-913-1
- ^ a b Taylor, Steve (2004) The A to X of Alternative Music, Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-7396-2, p. 154, 249
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2005) "Kill Your Idols", The Guardian, 8 April 2005
- ^ Nobakht, David (2008) Suicide: No Compromise, SAF, ISBN 978-0946719716, p. 125
- ^ "Pinnacle of Punk" article from The Brooklyn Paper
- ^ Dolan, Casey (May 5, 2007). "Downloads." Los Angeles Times
- ^ Lyskey, Dorian (2007) "Jeffrey Lewis, 12 Crass Songs", The Guardian, 28 September 2007
- ^ Frith, Simon & Horne, Howard (1987) Art into Pop, Methuen, ISBN 978-0416415407, p. 129-130
- ^ Szemere, Anna (1997) Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary, Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN 978-0271021331, p. 41
- ^ Goldberg, Michael Alan (2003) "Hanging on the Art Punk Edge: The A-Frames' Beautifully Dark Constructions", The Stranger, 30 January - 5 February 2003
- ^ Schild, Matt "It's a Bit Complicated - Art Brut", Aversion.com
- ^ a b Kaplan, E. Ann (1988) Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices, Verso Books, ISBN 978-0860912118
- ^ "Jeffrey Lewis, 12 Crass Songs"
- ^ Karan, Tim (2006) "Spazmo art-punk with a psychobilly edge", Alternative Press, 6 December 2006
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/30/devo-art-punk-80s-revival
- ^ "Nightlife", New York, 12 September 1994, p. 175
- ^ Crisafulli, Chuck (2003) Nirvana: Teen Spirit: The Stories Behind Every Song, Da Capo, ISBN 978-1560255581
- ^ a b c d Muggleton, David & Weinzierl, Rupert (2003) The Post-subcultures Reader, Berg, ISBN 978-1859736685, p. 245
- ^ "Rebel Art", Outsideleft
- ^ Brookes, Tim (2006) Guitar: An American Life, Grove/Atlantic, ISBN 978-0802142580
- ^ Wells, Steven (2004) Punk: Young, Loud & Snotty: the Stories Behind the Songs, Thunder Mouth Press, ISBN 978-1560255734, p. 65
- ^ http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=monochrome_set
- ^ Caramanica, Jon (2008) "Staging Their Happenings in an Art-Punk Mode, Embracing the Threat of Chaos", New York Times, 8 May 2008
- ^ Ware, Tony (2008) "Athens Art Punk", SF Weekly, 11 November 2008
- ^ Milian, Ray (2011) "[1]", Off The Radar Music, 4 April 2011
- ^ a b c Reddington, Helen (2007) The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era, Ashgate, ISBN 978-0754657736, p. 47
- ^ Lynskey, Dorian (2007) "The drinking person's thinking band", The Guardian, 27 February 2007
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r528769
- ^ Brackett, Nathan & Hoard, Christian (eds.) (2004) The New "Rolling Stone" Album Guide, 4th edn., Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0743201698, p.430
- ^ Interview with David Byrne, The Guardian 27 April 2001
- ^ Kot, Greg (2003) "Wire delivers high-voltage act; The art-punk foursome from Britain is back with a new, brutal style ", Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2003
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