http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ian-svenonius-on-todays-dubious-rock-n-roll-icons/ WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ian-svenonius-on-todays-dubious-rock-n-roll-icons/#comment-757 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:51:59 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=57645#comment-757 […] Read an excerpt from Ian Svenonius‘ new book about the idea that rock music’s “legacy machine” needs to be destroyed. [Bandwidth] […]

]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/ian-svenonius-on-todays-dubious-rock-n-roll-icons/#comment-756 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:13:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=57645#comment-756 “Typically not nuanced by democratic infighting” ??? Seriously? Virtually every one of these books on the history of American Hardcore is a collage of so called “icons” trashing one another. This diatribe against the contradictions of punk ideology goes pretty far out of it’s way to sidestep the (at least equally) insidious nature of the icon-embracing approach to art culture. I can see that diy and punk culture sit in tension between contradictions of the group and the individual, and maybe that can get ugly, but at least it’s not repackaging an overtly fascist ideology as something subversive or empowering. Kill Your Idols, not because of the appeal of novelty, but because it’s empowering.
Maybe I’m missing something here…

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