This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520257177)

This 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. This Ain't the Summer of Love traces 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.

Author: Steve Waksman
ISBN-10: 0520257170
ISBN-13: 9780520257177
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2009
Pages: 398
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 04/10/2009 pg. 17
Choice 07/01/2009