Safety Pin as Signifier
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The history of the subculture includes some distinguished ancestry. In Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 1989), the rock journalist Greil Marcus traced the sometimes roundabout way French Marxist thinkers such as Guy Debord influenced early British punk. The manager of the Sex Pistols, for example, used Debord's scathing critique of consumerism in The Society of the Spectacle (1968) as an alibi for his cynical manipulation of the media." --"Safety Pin as Signifier" (2002) is an essay by Scott McLemee |
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"Safety Pin as Signifier" (2002) is an essay on punk by American cultural critic Scott McLemee. It was subtitled "25 years after punk rock exploded, scholars ponder its role in cultural history".
The text analyzes to some Bernard Gendron's Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club, Dick Hebdige's Subculture, the Meaning of Style and Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus.
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