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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Despite releasing records only on independent labels and receiving virtually no radio play, Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their sound was inventive and tetchy, and front man Jello Biafra's lyrics were incisive and often scathing. This chroniclethe first in-depth book written about Dead Kennedysuses dozens of firsthand interviews, photos, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group that was mired in controversy almost from its inception. It examines and applauds the band's key role in transforming punk rhetoric, both polemical and musical, into something genuinely threatening and enormously funny. Author Alex Ogg puts the local and global trajectory of punk into context and, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes the individual band members have on the evolution of the band, attempts to be celebratoryif not uncritical. |
| Contents |
When ya get drafted -- So you've been to school for a year or two -- In a desperate mind, little gardens grow -- You will jog for the master race -- Are you believin' the morning papers? -- Anyone can be king for a day -- Efficiency and progress is ours once more -- Don't forget to pack a wife -- All you ever do is complain, yeah? -- Yakety yak -- Grafic anarchy. |
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Dead Kennedys (Musical group)
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Dead Kennedys (Musical group) (OCoLC)fst00583848
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Punk rock music.
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Rock groups.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Punk.
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- General.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Band & Orchestra.
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Punk rock music. (OCoLC)fst01084153
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Rock groups. (OCoLC)fst01099179
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ogg, Alex. Dead Kennedys. PM Press 2014 9781604864892 |
| ISBN |
1306801699 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306801690 (electronic bk.) |
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9781629630175 (electronic bk.) |
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1629630179 (electronic bk.) |
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9781604869873 (electronic bk.) |
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1604869879 (electronic bk.) |
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