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Title The Clash takes on the world : transnational perspectives on the only band that matters / edited by Samuel Cohen and James Peacock.
Edition Paperback edition.
Publisher New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Copyright ©2017

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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 4  Music HC500 COH  
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Description x, 272 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781501348099 paperback
Note Originally published in hardback: 2017.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the transnational Clash / Samuel Cohen and James Peacock -- An analysis of the Clash in concert: 1977 to 1982 / Peter Smith -- Politics, pastiche, parody and polemics: the DIY educational inspiration of the Clash / Andy Zieleniec -- Turning rebellion into money: the roots of the Clash / Lloyd I. Vayo -- The Clash sell out: negotiating space in the ideological superstructure / Nathalie Prévot and Graham Sinclair -- The Clash: sociological imagination and critical philosophy / Diana Cedeno -- Righteous minstrels: the Clash, race and the rock writer / Jack Hamilton -- Washington bullets: the Clash and Vietnam / Samuel Cohen -- Spouting slogans for the Sandinistas?: the Clash and international solidarity / Jeremy Tranner -- Punk politics, blackness and indigenous protest: the Clash's Australian tour, 1982 / Gabriel Solis -- From a long way away: New York and London in the Clash's 'Red angel dragnet' / James Peacock -- The last gang in town: the Clash portrayed in New York and Paris / Justin Wadlow -- Mick went disco and Joe sang campfire songs: punk after-parties and the politics of forking paths / Michael J. Salvo -- Conclusion: the only band that matters / Samuel Cohen and James Peacock.
Summary On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be 'bored with the USA', but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. The Clash takes on the world explores the transnational aspects of The Clash's music, lyrics and politics from a truly multinational perspective. Join literary scholars, historians, media theorists, musicologists, social activists and geographers from Europe and the United States as they apply a range of critical approaches to The Clash's work.
Library Class Music HC500
Subject Clash (Musical group) -- Criticism and interpretation.
Punk rock music -- Political aspects.
Other Author Cohen, Samuel S., editor.
Peacock, James, 1970- editor.

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