Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (33 1/3)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623567300 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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In unveiling a portrait of the Dead Kennedys and punk as creators of ‘a soundtrack of collective resistance’ (p. Vale, Editor, Search and Destroy“Author Michael Stewart Foley explores the band's genesis from two equally critical points of view in his eponymous book in the 33 1/3 series, the political and social factors alive in California at the time as well as the stew of underground creativity that fed punk's fetid blossom Foley's book does the album a good turn, his eye for the social inspirations behind Biafra and others, as well as the creative are essential to its understanding.” Bearded Magazine“Michael Stewart Foley's new book on Dead Kennedys' debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, rests a jarring assertion: 'B
Best of series Todd Billeci Well-written and thoughtful. Among the best of the series. Foley covers the turbulent sociopolitical milieu of San Francisco during the period, as well as the details of the band and the album. The list of references at the end is well-organized and detailed. Significantly deeper writing versus the similar book by Alex Ogg. Essential.. Amazon Customer said Extremely informative. Must-read if you're a huge DK fan like me.. Wonderfully written, and in-depth.. Solid. Z. Stiegler As other reviewers have pointed out, there isn't a whole lot of in-depth material on the album-as-text here. While bits and pieces of the album's composition and production are threaded throughout the book, it's only really the last chapter that hones in on the album itself (and even then, there's not much in the way of behind-the-scenes info or analysis.).Foley instead spends the majority of the book chronicling the national and (more importantly) local socio-politi
. Michael Stewart Foley is author of Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s (2013), among other books
In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools gave way to the madness of the Jonestown massacre and the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk at the hands of their former colleague, Dan White.In the year that followed this season of insanity, it made sense that a band called Dead Kennedys played Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach, referring to Governor Jerry Brown as a "zen fascist," calling for landlords to be lynched and yuppie gentrifiers to be sent to Cambodia to work for "a bowl of rice a day," critiquing government welfare and defense policies, and, at a time when each week seemed to bring news of a new serial killer or child abduction, commenting on dead and dying children. Drawing on Bay Area zines as well as new interviews with the band and many key figures from the early San Francisco punk scene, Michael Stewart Foley corrects that failing by treating Dead Kennedys' first record,