No Machos or Pop Stars When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk

Gavin Butt, "No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk"
English | ISBN: 1478018631 | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 20 MB
After punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In