Art punk
| Art punk | |
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| Cultural origins | 1970s, United Kingdom and United States |
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Art punk, or artcore, is a subgenre of punk rock in which artists go beyond the genre's rudimentary garage rock and are considered more sophisticated than their peers.[1] These groups still generated punk's aesthetic of being simple, offensive, and free-spirited, but essentially attracted audiences other than the angry, working-class ones that surrounded pub rock.[2]
History
In the rock music of the 1970s, the "art" descriptor was generally understood to mean either "aggressively avant-garde" or "pretentiously progressive".
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.[8]
References
- ^ Gittins 2004, p. 5.
- ^ Desrosiers, Mark (November 8, 2001). "25 Up: Punk's Silver Jubilee: Aesthetic Anesthetic: Liberating the Punk Canon". PopMatters.
- ^ Murray, Noel (May 28, 2015). "60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire". The A.V. Club.
- ISBN 978-0-416-41540-7, p. 129-130
- ^ Newman, Colin (2006) "Wire: the art-punk band's journey and legacy", The Independent, 17 February 2006
- ^ "The Red Krayola: Introduction Album Review". Pitchfork. 22 June 2006.
- ^ The Red Krayola - God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail with It Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-04-20
- ISBN 978-0-271-02133-1, p. 41
Bibliography
- Gittins, Ian (2004). Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime : the Stories Behind Every Song. Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-0-634-08033-3.