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[Frank Kogan] ☆ Real Punks Don't Wear Black ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Real Punks Don't Wear Black 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 “good” or “bad,” then look elsewhere. It’s your ideas that you're hearing on the radio, it's your song that gets sung.. Why is this so? What fe
| Title | : | Real Punks Don't Wear Black |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820327549 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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 “good” or “bad,” then look elsewhere. It’s your ideas that you're hearing on the radio, it's your song that gets sung.. Why is this so? What fears, contagions, divisions are we ignoring that our music cannot?Remember, says Kogan, this is about you, too. With relentless analysis and reckless screaming, Frank Kogan has made a career of asking infuriating questions about popular music. Whether you’re a gutterpunk or a cultstud geek, you’re a bigger part of the story than you realize. Keep your mind alive, your hairstyle in flux, and your tongue sharpened. From the Rolling Stones to the New York Dolls, from Mariah Carey to the Ying Yang Twins, through hip-hop, Europop, disco, and metal, Kogan insists on the hard questions: Our popular music is born in flight, chased by fear, and heading toward unattainable glory, he says. A key figure among music critic
. 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
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. "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. 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. "I value most the music that I like despite myself,
Nan Booth said THE Most Interesting and Intelligent Writing About Music. 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 wi
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