[ecrea] The Aesthetic of Our Anger… New Book on anarcho-punk

The Aesthetic of Our Anger. Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music
Edited by Mike Dines & Matthew Worley

Punk is one of the most fiercely debated post-war subcultures. Despite 
the attention surrounding the movement’s origins, analyses of punk have 
been drawn predominantly from a now well-trodden historical narrative. 
This simplification of punk’s histories erases its breadth and vibrancy, 
leaving out bands from Crass to the Subhumans who took the call for 
anarchy in the UK seriously.

Disillusioned by the commercialization of punk, the anarcho-punk scene 
fought against dependence on large record labels. Anarcho-punk 
re-ignited the punk ethos, including a return to an ‘anyone-can-do-it’ 
culture of music production and performance. Anarcho-punk encouraged 
focused political debate and self-organised subversive activities, from 
a heightened awareness to issues of personal freedom and animal rights 
to the development of local cooperatives where musicians, artists and 
like-minded people could meet.

The anarcho-punk movement helped to reignite a serious anarchist 
movement in the UK and inspired actions challenging the Thatcher-Reagan 
axis. The Aesthetic of Our Anger explores the development of the 
anarcho-punk scene from the late 1970s, raising questions over the 
origins of the scene, its form, structure and cultural significance 
examining how anarcho-punk moved away from using ‘anarchy’ as mere 
connotation and shock value towards an approach that served to make punk 
a threat again.

Contributors: George McKay, David Solomons, Russ Bestley, Ana Raposo, 
Helen Reddington, Rich Cross, Matt Grimes, Pete Webb, Michael Murphy, 
Alastair Gordon, Mike Dines, Pete Dale, Steve Ignorant, and the Free 
Association.

PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=791

Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.

Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
www.minorcompositions.info | (minorcompositions /at/ gmail.com)

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