Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

6 best books like Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Jim DeRogatis): England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Role Models

England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond

Author	Jon Savage
ISBN	0312288220

England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive...

We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

Author	Brendan Mullen
ISBN	0609807749

Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and...

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Author	Arjun Appadurai
ISBN	0816627932

The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world, leading cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai...

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World

Author	Clinton Heylin
ISBN	0140179704

Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock was a captivating read that, not unlike Patti Smith's autobiographies or Greil Marcus's study of the world of Bob Dylan's Basement Tape sessions with The Band, transported me as I read it to another historical time and...

Subculture: The Meaning of Style

Author	Dick Hebdige
ISBN	0415039495

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers...

Role Models

Author	John Waters
ISBN	0374251479

Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown,...