![]() ![]() Made by a four-man rock 'n' roll band called the Sex Pistols, and written by singer Johnny Rotten, the song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once set out by a group of Paris-based intellectuals. From the prologue: This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called " Anarchy in the U.K." was issued in London, and this even launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. The idea is that, their broadsides out of print and their grafitti cleaned up, these movement barely left a trace, and yet they influence everything we do. The author conveys in whirlwind prose his subjects' hysterical need to save and ruin the world. The book focuses mostly on the recurrence of historical images across the movements of Dada, Lettrism, the Situationist International, and Punk, with a number of tangetial discussions of Medieval heresies along the way. ![]() ![]() Lipstick Traces ( Harvard press, 1989, 497 pages), "a secret history of the twentieth century", is a long and mind-blowing book of comparative history by Greil Marcus. ![]()
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