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Clash Takes on the World
Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be “bored with the USA,” but The Clash wasn’t a parochial record. Mick Jones’ licks on songs such as “Hate and War” were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin’s reggae hit “Police and Thieves” showed that the band’s musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat Rock saw them experimenting with a huge range of musical genres, lyrical themes and visual aesthetics.The Clash Takes on the World explores the transnational aspects of The Clash’s music, lyrics and politics, and it does so from a truly transnational perspective. It brings together literary scholars, historians, media theorists, musicologists, social activists and geographers from Europe and the US, and applies a range of critical approaches to The Clash’s work in order to tackle a number of key questions: How should we interpret their negotiations with reggae music and culture? How did The Clash respond to the specific socio-political issues of their time, such as the economic recession, the Reagan-Thatcher era and burgeoning neoliberalism, and international conflicts in Nicaragua and the Falkland Islands? How did they reconcile their anti-capitalist stance with their own success and status as a global commodity? And how did their avowedly inclusive, multicultural stance, reflected in their musical diversity, square with the experience of watching the band in performance? The Clash Takes on the World is essential reading for scholars, students and general readers interested in a band whose popularity endures.
Clash Takes on the World
Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be “bored with the USA,” but The Clash wasn’t a parochial record. Mick Jones’ licks on songs such as “Hate and War” were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin’s reggae hit “Police and Thieves” showed that the band’s musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista! and Combat Rock saw them experimenting with a huge range of musical genres, lyrical themes and visual aesthetics.The Clash Takes on the World explores the transnational aspects of The Clash’s music, lyrics and politics, and it does so from a truly transnational perspective. It brings together literary scholars, historians, media theorists, musicologists, social activists and geographers from Europe and the US, and applies a range of critical approaches to The Clash’s work in order to tackle a number of key questions: How should we interpret their negotiations with reggae music and culture? How did The Clash respond to the specific socio-political issues of their time, such as the economic recession, the Reagan-Thatcher era and burgeoning neoliberalism, and international conflicts in Nicaragua and the Falkland Islands? How did they reconcile their anti-capitalist stance with their own success and status as a global commodity? And how did their avowedly inclusive, multicultural stance, reflected in their musical diversity, square with the experience of watching the band in performance? The Clash Takes on the World is essential reading for scholars, students and general readers interested in a band whose popularity endures.
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This is a book about banned books in the U.S. — about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books in America features novelists on banning and being banned, arguments about the histories and politics of book banning, readings of banned books in national and international contexts, and responses to new legislation by anti-censorship advocates, teachers, and librarians. Together, these writers and educators provide a view from the trenches of the wars on reading. They offer, if not a single blueprint, models for how to think about what it means to ban books and how to fight back against the forces that would ban them.This book shows that at the heart of this issue is the question of what books mean to people. Some Americans are determined to decide which books other Americans shouldn’t get to read. Why these books? Why now? Anyone who seeks to answer these questions must examine the context, historical and current, in which Americans allow this to happen.This is a book about book banning in America, and so it is a book about America.