Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk by Sam McPheeters

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9781947856981
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Publisher
Rare Bird Books
ISBN-10
1947856987
ISBN-13
9781947856981
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038510214

Product Key Features

Book Title
Mutations : the Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
General
Genre
Music
Author
Sam Mcpheeters
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.8 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Reviews
"McPheeters, in his music and now in Mutations , has always had a keen eye for the ridiculous and an unsparing eye for himself, and the result here is a beautiful and honest epitaph for a bygone time and the people who survived it." -- GQ "It's an idiosyncratic compilation, but McPheeters has a knack for synthesizing what makes hardcore so intellectually stimulating underneath all that screaming." -- Jim Ruland in the Los Angeles Times "McPheeters style of writing is very smooth, it's splendidly easy on the eye, it's conversational and welcoming. He sees the joy of tucking into something wholeheartedly but is not afraid to pull it apart from the inside." -- The Quietus " Mutations is the memoir that hardcore punk needs."-- Pitchfork "I couldn't put Sam McPheeters' book Mutations down. I tore through it in a day and a half, skipping meals and work along the way." -- Vol. 1 Brooklyn "An absolutely essential study for students and fans of the Punk Rock movement in music, "Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk" is an extraordinary and pitch-perfect history." -- Midwest Book Review, " Mutations is the memoir that hardcore punk needs."-- Pitchfork "An absolutely essential study for students and fans of the Punk Rock movement in music, "Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk" is an extraordinary and pitch-perfect history." -- Midwest Book Review, " Mutations is the memoir that hardcore punk needs."-- Pitchfork "I couldn't put Sam McPheeters' book Mutations down. I tore through it in a day and a half, skipping meals and work along the way." -- Vol. 1 Brooklyn "An absolutely essential study for students and fans of the Punk Rock movement in music, "Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk" is an extraordinary and pitch-perfect history." -- Midwest Book Review
Synopsis
How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if someone has a strong belief about what punk is, odds are they have even stronger feelings about what punk is not. Sam McPheeters championed many different versions. Over the course of two decades, he fronted Born Against, released dozens of records and fanzines, and toured seventeen times across the northern hemisphere. In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, he examines the diverse realms he intersected, New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, and New England, and downtown Los Angeles, and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place., How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if someone has a strong belief about what punk is, odds are they have even stronger feelings about what punk is not. Sam McPheeters championed many different versions. Over the course of two decades, he fronted Born Against, released dozens of records and fanzines, and toured seventeen times across the northern hemisphere. In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, he examines the diverse realms he intersected--New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, and New England, and downtown Los Angeles--and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place., Inaugural pick for the Pitchfork Book Club GQ's One of the Best Books to Read Right Now How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if someone has a strong belief about what punk is, odds are they have even stronger feelings about what punk is not. Sam McPheeters championed many different versions. Over the course of two decades, he fronted Born Against, released dozens of records and fanzines, and toured seventeen times across the northern hemisphere. In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, he examines the diverse realms he intersected--New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, and New England, and downtown Los Angeles--and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place.

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