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Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables / Michael Stewart Foley.
- Title
- Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables / Michael Stewart Foley.
- Author
- Foley, Michael S.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- 177 pages : illustrations; 17 cm.
- Summary
- In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. In the year that followed this season of insanity, it made sense that a band called Dead Kennedys played Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach, referring to Governor Jerry Brown as a "zen fascist," calling for landlords to be lynched and yuppie gentrifiers to be sent to Cambodia to work for "a bowl of rice a day," critiquing government welfare and defense policies, and, at a time when each week seemed to bring news of a new serial killer or child abduction, commenting on dead and dying children. But it made sense only (or primarily) to those who were there, to those who experienced the heyday of "the Mab." Most histories of the 1970s and 1980s ignore youth politics and subcultures. Drawing on Bay Area zines as well as new interviews with the band and many key figures from the early San Francisco punk scene, Michael Stewart Foley corrects that failing by treating Dead Kennedys' first record, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, as a critical historical document, one that not only qualified as political expression but, whether experienced on vinyl or from the stage of "the Mab," stimulated emotions and ideals that were, if you can believe it, utopian. --Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- 33 1/3 ; 105
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I don't need this fucking world -- Mellow out or you will pay -- The sun beams down on a brand new day -- It's time to taste what you most fear -- There's no way like the American way.
- ISBN
- 9781623567309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1623567300 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2014045849
- OCLC
- 897001582
- SCSB-10100667
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library