- Hardcover: 382 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (27 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520253108
- ISBN-13: 978-0520253100
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,898,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"One of the more potent and persuasive pieces of recent cultural critiques... Waksman, often quite brilliantly, fuses the fan and the critic into a rich voice for music criticism... Considerably raises the bar for engaged exploration of music subcultures."--Baltimore City Paper "A wonderful mixture of fact, observation, interpretation, and humor."--Music Industry Newswire "The author is to be commended for shedding welcome light on a seldom illuminated dialogue and recognising the ongoing variegation of rock 'n' roll as a process contingent on the external pressures brought to bear on it."--The Wire "Waksman's superb book provides a model for other scholars to follow."--Jrnl of Popular Music Stds "Waksman's work is engaging, thought-provoking, and an important contribution particularly for metal studies."--American Studies
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This lively and entertaining revisionist history of rock music after 1970 reconsiders the roles of two genres, heavy metal and punk. Instead of considering metal and punk as aesthetically opposed to each other, Steve Waksman breaks new ground by showing that a profound connection exists between them. Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate relationship that informed both genres in terms of sound, image, and discourse. "This Ain't the Summer of Love" traces this connection back to the early 1970s, when metal first asserted its identity and punk arose independently as an ideal about what rock should be and could become, and upends established interpretations of metal and punk and their place in rock history.
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Great book for academically inclined music fans
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Great book for academically inclined music fans, I really enjoyed all the Creem magazine citations, as I was a subscriber during the time period the book covers.
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