Shibboleth: My Revolting Life
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.48 (971 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1873176406 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-01-29 |
Language | : | English |
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Benjamin S said wow!. what a brave and interesting book. Penny really bares his soul and is sometimes disturbingly honest. Penny is a thoughtful, intelligent fellow with a lot of empathy and compassion which can be difficult in what is so often a cruel and hostile world. If only more of us would stop and consider where it is we are headed and how we might make this place better for everyone. Anyway Im goin. SusScrofa said The Meanderings and Musings of a Contrary Man. There is something depressingly familiar in the resigned assent to violence that Rimbuad closes his book with when he refers to the attempted assassination of Margaret Thatcher by the IRA. As the catalyst for a generation of young punk rockers to begin challenging the System, Rimbuad lead the band Crass on a raucous assault on the British establishment and it's icons. The banners then. Quickhappy said Fascinating, irreverant, creative, and good. Shibboleth recounts the origins of punk (as we know it), by finding early punk in the late 1960s and recording its evolution through the 1970s and 1980s. I've never heard Rimbaud's band Crass, and loved this book all the same. Rimbaud sets up an interesting double story line: that of his own life and that of Wally--a flower child. In a sense, the collapse of Wally's dreams, his ruinat
"Penny Rimbaud (/ J.J. Stone. In 'Shibboleth' he takes a critical look at his past and comes up with a tentative prediciton for his future." -- C.J. Rimbaud) was at the core both of the hippie and of the punk movement in Britian
When Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten screamed "No Future" the challenge was taken. Crass took the idealism of punk seriously. In the space of seven short years, from 1977 to their breakup in 1984, Crass almost single-handedly breathed life back into the then moribund peace and anarchist movements. The extraordinary autobiography of Jeremy John Ratter, a.k.a. While remaining on their own independent record label, and steadfastly refusing any interviews with the major press, they managed to sell literally millions of records. Penny Rimbaud, founder, lyricist, and drummer of Crass, a band unique in the history of rock 'n' roll. They birthed a huge underground network of do-it-yourself activism, fanzines, record labels, activist action groups, and concert halls. Their political "pranks" included the now infamous "KGB tapes," trumpete