Day 5 (Mon, May 16): Revolution Rock

For Today:

• Listen: The Clash, London Calling (Epic, 1979). The playlist is embedded below. Click here for links to the album’s lyrics.
• Read: Iain Ellis, “The Chords and the Truth: The Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash,” PopMatters, 8 Jan 2019.
• Read: Stuart Brumfitt, “How punk and reggae fought back against racism in the 70s,” i-D, 14 Sept 2015.
• Watch: The Clash: Westway to the World.
• Notes: A primer on UK punk, skins, 2Tone, and Rock Against Racism.
  
• Due tomorrow, by noon: Post in Discussion #4 – London Calling.

For Further Reading & Research:

• Listen: “A Conversation with Stuart Schrader on Rock Against Racism and Badges Without Borders” – interview by Joe Greenbaum for WNUR (Northwestern University) radio.
• Randal Doane, Stealing All Transmissions : A Secret History of the Clash (PM Press, 2014).
• Eds. Barry J. Faulk and Brady Harrison, Punk Rock Warlord: the Life and Work of Joe Strummer (Taylor & Francis, 2014).  
• Ian Goodyear, Crisis Music : The Cultural Politics of Rock Against Racism (Manchester University Press, 2009).
• Mikal Gilmore, “The Fury and the Power of The Clash,” Rolling Stone, Feb 2011.
• The Clash – a BBC4 documentary by Julien Temple, the director of The Filth and the Fury.
• Mikal Gilmore,”Clash: Anger on the Left,” Rolling Stone, 8 March 1979.
• Anton Spice, “The story of 2 Tone Records’ radical cover art,” Vinyl Factory, 24 May 2017.
• Archive in Focus: Syd Shelton, Rock against Racism – a short audio interview with a photographer who documented the Rock Against Racism shows in the late 70s.
• Sarfraz Manzoor, “The year rock found the power to unite,” The Guardian, 20 April 2008.
• “Roots Manoeuvre,” The Guardian, 20 July 2007.
• Under the Influence: 2 Tone Ska (video), via Noisey.
• There’s a great film called This is England that addresses the race & class politics of UK punk culture from this period in a fictional context. I posted a copy of the film here for anyone who’s interested in checking it out.