Day 4 (Thur, May 12): Anarchy in the UK

For Today:

• Listen: Early UK Punk playlist embedded below.
• Read: Biju Belinky, “Never Mind the Sex Pistols… It Was The Damned Who Pioneered UK Punk,” Vice, Nov 22 2016.
• Read: Jenn Pelly, “The Raincoats’ Debut Album is a Classic DIY Document,” Pitchfork, 26 Sept 2017.
• Watch: The Filth and the Fury – An eclectic and fairly comprehensive documentary about the Sex Pistols.
• Due Monday, by noon: Critical Response #1 – Anarchy in the UK.

 For Further Reading & Research:

• Helen Reddington, “The Forgotten Revolution of Female Punk Musicians in the 1970s,” Peace Review 16:4, December (2004), 439-444.
• Watch a documentary on women in early UK punk by Zillah Minx: She’s a Punk Rocker UK.
• Watch Don Letts’ documentary on UK subcultures: The Unique Story of British Music & Street Style.
• Nick Crossley, Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80 (Manchester University Press, 2015).
• Dave Thompson, London’s Burning: True Adventures on the Front Lines of Punk, 1976–-1977 (Chicago Review Press, 2009).
• Jon Savage, The England’’s Dreaming Tapes (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).
• Janine Bullman, “Girls Unconditional: The story of The Slits, told exclusively by The Slits,” Loud and Quiet, 18 July 2009.
• “Will Self on God Save the Queen/Sex Pistols,” Wordsandmusic, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2010): 26-27.
• Charles M. Young, “A Report on the Sex Pistols,” Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.
• Jenn Pelly, Review of X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents, Pitchfork, 15 Jan 2017.
• Griel Marcus, Preface to Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), 1-14.
• Ellen Willis, “Beginning to See the Light” (Village Voice, 1977)
, from The Essential Ellen Willis.
• Helen Reddington, “The Forgotten Revolution of Female Punk Musicians in the 1970s,” Peace Review 16:4, December (2004), 439-444.