Drawing on archives and live performances, this book traces the impressions and reverberations of UK punk band Throbbing Gristle.
This book looks at late 1970s Britain, before, during, and immediately after the Winter of Discontent, to situate the activism of Throbbing Gristle in this time. It explores how the band worked in and against the time, and how they worked in and against punk, as punk worked in and against the time and place. Punk acts as a mediating factor and nuisance value in the band’s story, as Throbbing Gristle emerged with punk in late 1976, grappled with it through 1977, and then went on to create and eventually criticize a number of post-punk scenes that had flourished around 1979.
By:
Ian Trowell (Independent Scholar)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789388268
ISBN 10: 1789388260
Series: Global Punk
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 April 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. DISPLACEMENTS 2. ORIGINAL SINNERS – TOWARDS PROSTITUTION 3. IN AND AGAINST PUNK – 1977 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 4. ANTI-GIG – ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION, 3 MARCH 1978 5. IN THE MACHINE – WAKEFIELD COLLEGE, 1 JULY 1978 6. ANACHRONY IN THE UK – DERBY AJANTA THEATRE, 12 APRIL 1979 7. RESTLESSNESS – SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY, 10 JUNE 1980 8. ENDGAMES/AFTERLIVES REFERENCES INDEX
Ian Trowell is an independent scholar based in the UK
Reviews for Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent
'Ian Trowell’s book is a marvellous trawl through the alternative and underground music of the late 1970s and early 80s, hung on the story of Throbbing Gristle; more specifically, a number of their live concerts, or performance events, around the UK. [...] Why do I say this book is marvellous? Well, for the way it genuinely captures the time it describes [...] and for how Trowell uses the different locations of the TG gigs – London, Wakefield, Derby, Sheffield and others – to explore what was going on around the UK, recognising that whilst punk may have expired in London, it was only just happening elsewhere; also, that many different kinds of what we call post-punk were happening.' -- Rupert Loydell, International Times
