Right time, right place
The British Library’s Punk 1976–78 exhibition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21783574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Mark Percival (Queen Margaret University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 113-125 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-7133 • E-ISSN: 1743-1646 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/pomh.39677 |
| OpenAlex | W3120944961 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
To mark the 40th anniversary of punk rock, the British Library ran a free exhibition and a series of associated live spoken-word events in the summer of 2016. Punk was always both outsider (rhetoric, sound, fashion) and insider (the big names of the first-generation UK bands mostly signed to major labels). Using Simon Frith’s framework of three overlapping discourses in popular music (folk, pop and art) I argue that the contradictory strands of ideology in and around punk made the British Library the perfect site for this show
Art · Art history · Exhibition · Frith · Ideology · Indie film · Insider · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Punk · Rhetoric · Visual arts · Diverse Musicological Studies · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |