{"product_id":"this-aint-the-summer-of-love-conflict-and-crossover-in-heavy-metal-and-punk-paperback","title":"This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Waksman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis lively and entertaining revisionist history of rock music after 1970 reconsiders the roles of two genres, heavy metal and punk. Instead of considering metal and punk as aesthetically opposed to each other, Steve Waksman breaks new ground by showing that a profound connection exists between them. Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate relationship that informed both genres in terms of sound, image, and discourse. \u003ci\u003eThis Ain't the Summer of Love \u003c\/i\u003etraces this connection back to the early 1970s, when metal first asserted its identity and punk arose independently as an ideal about what rock should be and could become, and upends established interpretations of metal and punk and their place in rock history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaksman brings a new understanding to familiar material by treating it in an original and stimulating manner. This book tells 'the other side of the story.'--Philip Auslander, author of \u003ci\u003ePerforming Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While there are a number of histories of punk and metal and numerous biographies of important bands within each genre, there is no comparable book to \u003ci\u003eThis Ain't the Summer of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. The ultimate contribution the book makes is to provoke the reader into rethinking the ongoing fluid relationship between punk, a music that enjoyed considerable critical support, and metal, a music that has been systematically denigrated by critics. This book is the product of superior scholarship; it truly breaks fresh ground and as such it is an important book that will be regularly cited in future work.\"--Rob Bowman, Professor of Music at York University and author of \u003ci\u003eSoulsville USA: The Story of Stax Records\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Debunking simplistic assumptions that punk rebelled and heavy metal conformed, Steve Waksman demonstrates with precisely chosen examples that for decades the two shared strategies and concerns. As a result, this important volume is among the first to extend to rock history the same much-needed revisionism that elsewhere has transformed our understanding of minstrelsy, blues, country music, and pop.\"--Eric Weisbard, author of \u003ci\u003eUse Your Illusion I \u0026amp; II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Waksman\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eInstruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 398\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51820109267232,"sku":"9780520257177","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/90c741279d3065a7897caedfecac1a18.webp?v=1781146763","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/this-aint-the-summer-of-love-conflict-and-crossover-in-heavy-metal-and-punk-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}