Read & Burn: A book about Wire

Read & Burn: A book about Wire
- Pages: 432
Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historical accident. Despite the fact that they had complicated and transformed that category almost before they'd begun, they seem never to have quite escaped the label. Be it punk, post-punk, or art-punk, critics have clung onto the p-word in an attempt to capture the essence of Wire's innovative uniqueness. But their story -- which honours punk's original yet quickly forgotten commitment to the new -- is one of constant remaking and remodelling, one that stubbornly resists reduction to a single identity. As a result, the group's projects have always balanced uneasily between artistic endeavour and the need for commercial sustainability, played out against the backdrop of the musicians' perennially complex creative relationships. Tracing Wire's diverse output from 1977 up until the present, Read & Burn seeks to do justice to their highly influential and restlessly inventive body of work by developing a sustained critical account of their shifting approaches. It combines analysis and interpretation with perspective drawn from exclusive interviews with past and present members of the band.
Country USA
Brand Hal Leonard
Manufacturer Jawbone Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 20 Colour and Black and White in Plate S
ReleaseDate 2013-06-01
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884088914905
EANs 9781908279330

Country	USA
Brand	Hal Leonard
Manufacturer	Jawbone Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	20 Colour and Black and White in Plate S
ReleaseDate	2013-06-01
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884088914905
EANs	9781908279330

Read & Burn: A book about Wire

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