Gang of Four's Entertainment!

by Kevin J.H. Dettmar

Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats--and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life.

But for an American college student from the suburbs--and, one expects,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623560659
• ISBN13: 9781623560652
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 6.5"