Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style (Studies in the Fine Arts Avant-Garde) [Hardcover]

Tricia Henry (Author)

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• Hardcover: 152 pages
• Publisher: Umi Research Pr (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0835719804
• ISBN-13: 978-0835719803
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,573,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Overly-academic, but not uninformed, August 9, 2001

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style (Studies in the Fine Arts Avant-Garde) (Hardcover)

I disagree with the assumption in the other Amazon reviews that Trisha Henry was an uninformed outsider, looking in on punk and getting it all wrong... She's just an academic, fercrissakes, writing for an academic audience!! I'm sure she was just as punk as you are, it's just that when you're writing your graduate thesis (which is what this book originally was) you kinda have to be a bit, um, academic. She does an admirable job translating the anti-authoritarian, pro-artist ethos of punk into scholarly jargon -- the trouble with this book isn't that she didn't know what she was talking about, it's just that hearing it all expalined so clinically is nowhere near as fun as playing a Sex Pistols album at full blast. It's worth checking out, if you want to see how DIY translates into PhD.

2.0 out of 5 stars not worth it, July 9, 2002

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Dogrrrl (Leucadia, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style (Studies in the Fine Arts Avant-Garde) (Hardcover)

I can't believe the cost of this tiny book (listed at [price]!). It is very very brief, and very very dry. It glosses over and over simplifies a lot, to the detriment of anyone trying to understand punk.There's almost no mention of politics, for instance. Does have some song lyrics and sheet music, but big deal. The clinical approach is obsessive. I suppose the brevity could be useful in some cases if accompanied by other material.
Ch 1 - Velvet Underground
Ch 2 - Glitter Rock
Ch 3 - CBGBs
Ch 4 - Sex Pistols (the worst one)
Ch 5 - Zines

3.0 out of 5 stars Overly-academic, but not uninformed, August 10, 2001

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style (Studies in the Fine Arts Avant-Garde) (Hardcover)

I disagree with the assumption in the other Amazon reviews that Trisha Henry was an uninformed outsider, looking in on punk and getting it all wrong... She's just an academic, fercrissakes, writing for an academic audience!! I'm sure she was just as punk as you are, it's just that when you're writing your graduate thesis (which is what this book originally was) you kinda have to be a bit, um, academic. She does an admirable job translating the anti-authoritarian, pro-artist ethos of punk into scholarly jargon -- the trouble with this book isn't that she didn't know what she was talking about, it's just that hearing it all expalined so clinically is nowhere near as fun as playing a Sex Pistols album at full blast. It's worth checking out, if you want to see how DIY translates into PhD.