Punk / Original and Proto
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19.49 €
Read & Burn : A Book About Wire
Wire - Book - by Wilson Neate
(2013)
"Read
and Burn" is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of Wire, one of the
most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire
were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historical
accident. Despite the fact that they had complicated and transformed
that category almost before they'd begun, they seem never to have quite
escaped the label.
Be
it punk, post-punk, or art-punk, critics have clung onto the p-word in
an attempt to capture the essence of Wire's innovative uniqueness. But
their story - which honours punk's original yet quickly forgotten
commitment to the new - is one of constant remaking and remodelling, one
that stubbornly resists reduction to a single identity. As a result,
the group's projects have always balanced uneasily between artistic
endeavour and the need for commercial sustainability, played out against
the backdrop of the musicians' perennially complex creative
relationships.
Tracing
Wire's diverse output from 1977 up until the present, "Read and Burn"
seeks to do justice to their highly influential and restlessly inventive
body of work by developing a sustained critical account of their
shifting approaches. It combines analysis and interpretation with
perspective drawn from exclusive interviews with past and present
members of the band.
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