Art punk

Art punk
Stylistic origins	Post-punk[1] garage rock[1]
Cultural origins	Late 1970s, United States
Other topics
Art pop art rock avant-punk post-hardcore pub rock post-progressive

Art punk is a style of music originating in late 1970s post-punk.^[1] The term was used as a pejorative for higher-educated punk rock bands who were out of step with the genre's ideologies.^[1] It generated punk's aesthetic of being simple, offensive, and free-spirited, in contrast to pub rock, which generated its angry, working-class audience.^[2]

History

Musicologists Simon Frith and Howard Horne described the band managers of the 1970s punk bands as "the most articulate theorists of the art punk movement", with Bob Last of Fast Product identified as one of the first to apply art theory to marketing, and Tony Wilson's Factory Records described as "applying the Bauhaus principle of the same 'look' for all the company's goods".^[3] Wire's Colin Newman described art punk in 2006 as "the drug of choice of a whole generation."^[4]

Anna Szemere traces the beginnings of the Hungarian art-punk subculture to 1978, when punk band The Spions performed three concerts which drew on conceptualist performance art and Antonin Artaud's "theatre of cruelty", with neo-avant-garde/anarchist manifestos handed out to the audience.^[5]

List of artists

• A Frames^[6]
• Art Brut^[7]
• The Blood Brothers^[8]
• Glenn Branca^[9]
• Chimera^[10]
• Clinic^[11]
• Crass^[12]
• Daughters^[13]
• David Byrne^[14]
• The Death Set^[15]
• Devo^[16]
• DNA^[9]
• The Fall^[17]
• The Futurians^[18]
• Gang of Four^[19][20]
• Richard Hell^[21]
• Ikara Colt^[22]
• New York Dolls^[2]
• No Age^[23]
• Patti Smith^[2]
• Pere Ubu^[24]
• Pylon^[25]
• The Raincoats^[20][26]
• The Rakes^[27]
• The Rapture^[28]
• Ramones^[2]
• Scratch Acid^[29]
• Scritti Politti^[20][26]
• Suicide^[30]
• Talking Heads^[31]
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists^[32]
• Television^[33]
• Wire^[34]
• We Are Wolves^[35]
• XTC^[36]
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs^[37]

References

1. Gittins 2004, p. 5.
2. Desrosiers, Mark (November 8, 2001). "25 Up: Punk's Silver Jubilee: Aesthetic Anesthetic: Liberating the Punk Canon". PopMatters.
3. Frith, Simon & Horne, Howard (1987) Art into Pop, Methuen, ISBN 978-0-416-41540-7, p. 129-130
4. Newman, Colin (2006) "Wire: the art-punk band's journey and legacy", The Independent, 17 February 2006
5. Szemere, Anna (1997) Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary, Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN 978-0-271-02133-1, p. 41
6. Goldberg, Michael Alan (2003) "Hanging on the Art Punk Edge: The A-Frames' Beautifully Dark Constructions", The Stranger, 30 January - 5 February 2003
7. Schild, Matt "It's a Bit Complicated - Art Brut", Aversion.com
8. Ham, Robert (15 February 2010). "Past Lives: Seattle art-punk band lives on". The Oregonian.
9. Kaplan, E. Ann (1988) Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices, Verso Books, ISBN 978-0-86091-211-8
10. Горбачев, Александр. Зинин, Илья. Песни в пустоту (фрагмент). colta.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 October 2014.
11. Heather (2013) " Clinic Biography", "allmusic", 14 September 2016
12. Lyskey, Dorian (2007) "Jeffrey Lewis, 12 Crass Songs", The Guardian, 28 September 2007
13. Karan, Tim (2006) "Spazmo art-punk with a psychobilly edge", Alternative Press, 6 December 2006
14. Interview with David Byrne, The Guardian 27 April 2001
15. Milian, Ray (2011) "", Off The Radar Music, 4 April 2011
16. Pat Long (2 May 2009). "Pat Long meets new wave 80s oddballs Devo, who are intent on making a comeback | Music". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
17. "Nightlife", New York, 12 September 1994, p. 175
18. "CJA". Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
19. Crisafulli, Chuck (2003) Nirvana: Teen Spirit: The Stories Behind Every Song, Da Capo, ISBN 978-1-56025-558-1
20. Muggleton, David & Weinzierl, Rupert (2003) The Post-subcultures Reader, Berg, ISBN 978-1-85973-668-5, p. 245
21. Brookes, Tim (2006) Guitar: An American Life, Grove/Atlantic, ISBN 978-0-8021-4258-0
22. Wells, Steven (2004) Punk: Young, Loud & Snotty: the Stories Behind the Songs, Thunder Mouth Press, ISBN 978-1-56025-573-4, p. 65
23. Caramanica, Jon (2008) "Staging Their Happenings in an Art-Punk Mode, Embracing the Threat of Chaos", New York Times, 8 May 2008
24. Taylor, Steve (2004) The A to X of Alternative Music, Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-7396-2, p. 154, 249
25. Ware, Tony (2008) "Athens Art Punk", SF Weekly, 11 November 2008
26. Reddington, Helen (2007) The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era, Ashgate, ISBN 978-0-7546-5773-6, p. 47
27. Lynskey, Dorian (2007) "The drinking person's thinking band", The Guardian, 27 February 2007
28. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r528769
29. Brackett, Nathan & Hoard, Christian (eds.) (2004) The New "Rolling Stone" Album Guide, 4th edn., Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8, p.430
30. "All-Star Suicide Tribute". Clash. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
31. Gittins, Ian. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime : the Stories Behind Every Song. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2004. p. 5.
32. "Thursday, September 29". Now Toronto. September 29, 2005. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
33. Meagher, John (May 31, 2015). "Music - Television: NYC's art-punk pioneers". Irish Independent. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
34. Kot, Greg (2003) "Wire delivers high-voltage act; The art-punk foursome from Britain is back with a new, brutal style ", Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2003
35. Hill, Eric."We Are Wolves' Art of Noise", Exclaim!, June 2009.
36. Crandall, Bill (August 8, 1997). "NO EXIT: XTC's Andy Partridge". Bam.
37. McLean, Craig (June 13, 2009). "Yeah Yeah Yeahs: why fans of the art-punk trio can't say no". The Times. Retrieved January 2, 2010.

Bibliography

• Gittins, Ian (2004). Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime : the Stories Behind Every Song. Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-0-634-08033-3.