Rock and roll vs. modern life

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Includes bibliographical references and index.That's Peanut Butter! -- Counter, Culture, Counterculture -- We Shall Raise the Flag of Nothingness -- The Politics and Ethics of Ecstasy -- Funk lessons -- Gnostics of the North, or Music To Recolonize Your Anxious Capitalist Dreams By -- All The Needles Are on Red -- The Wee Hours of Etc. -- The Feeling You've Been Cheated -- Video Killed the Radio Star."No Boomer-esque celebration of the 'music that defined an era,' Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life is instead a deeply critical analysis of rock and roll as a chaotic, caterwauling project to upend the foundational presumptions of postwar values. What we have here is the closest thing yet to a unified field theory of rock and roll. In seminal performances, films, and recordings, Iggy Pop, James Brown, Patti Smith, the Last Poets, and the Sex Pistols disrupt the implicit ontologies of modernism and late-stage capitalism. With its comrades, conceptual art, Black power, and poststructuralism, rock and roll strips back the linoleum surface of modern life to reveal a feral sensibility unwilling to be boxed up for clean consumption."--