Gang of Four's Entertainment! (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punkOCOs smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punkOCOs angry energy to funkOCOs propulsive beatsOCoand used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbsOCoand, one expects, for many, many others, including British youthOCoJon KingOCOs and Andy GillOCOs mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock OCynOCO roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large donOCOt tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreenOCothe misunderstood lyricOCoseriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.OCOs debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But thatOCOs the title, too, of rock OCynOCO rollOCOs Greatest Hits compilationOCoand that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics."