Gang of Four's Entertainment!

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Gang of Four's Entertainment!Author(s): Kevin J.H. Dettmar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781623560652, 978-1623560652\nSynopsis\nFollowing hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punks smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punks angry energy to funks propulsive beatsand 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.\n\nBut for an American college student from the suburbsand, one expects, for many, many others, including British youthJon Kings and Andy Gills mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock n roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large dont tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible.