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Post Punk Then And Now

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  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    what people did in rural Ireland when they weren’t allowed to have parties in any villages, they would all meet at the crossroads and dance there to escape the police telling them they couldn’t part
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    phallocentric rock music
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    think when sportswear ceases to be fashionable, that’s when capitalism will start to fall!
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    The music industry everywhere is in big trouble. In Poland, now everything is dominated by various mutations of horrendous “Polish rock”, or uninspired versions of American commercial pop. It’s all globalised formats, like Pop Idol.
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    But what’s really interesting about the scene in Poland since the 90s is hip-hop. Hip-hop has become the “next punk” or post-punk
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    You can’t communicate with people in your own country if you sing in another language
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    when I worked there, I saw a dramatic increase in Polish bands singing in English, which our editor saw as a sign of titanic collapse.
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    In socialist, supposedly classless Poland, those who managed to create artsy post-punk were often kids from the intelligentsia and privileged bourgeois backgrounds, who used their sense of entitlement to make art from the milieu of their educated, book-filled homes.
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    Neither art nor music exist in a social void; it depends heavily on your class whether you are entitled to create it.
  • Marina Agliullinahas quoted8 years ago
    Peter Hook’s recent book on Joy Division showed very well how crap the group’s lives were; how poor they were. Until the very last moment actually, they were having so many difficulties it’s a miracle there was something like Joy Division at all. But in their optimism they saw their class as victors
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