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    Gang of Four’s Entertainment!
    (33⅓, #91)
    by Kevin J.H. Dettmar

    🔰 Gang of Four’s Entertainment! – Read More 🔰

    • Release date: March 27, 2014
    • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
    • ISBN: 9781623560652 (1623560659)
    • Author: Kevin J.H. Dettmar
    • Language: english
    • Series: 33⅓, #91
    • Format: paperback, 160 pages
    • Genres: music

    About The Book

    Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk’s smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk’s angry energy to funk’s propulsive beats — and 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 suburbs — and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth — Jon King’s and Andy Gill’s mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock ‘n’ roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don’t 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 mondegreen — the misunderstood lyric — seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.’s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that’s the title, too, of rock ‘n’ roll’s Greatest Hits compilation — and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.

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