Crass and Communal Living: Blending the Subversive into the Everyday in Epping Forest
Conference paper
Dines, M. 2012. Crass and Communal Living: Blending the Subversive into the Everyday in Epping Forest. Biennial IASPM-UK/Ireland conference: Imagining Communities Musically: Putting Popular Music in its Place. University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Manchester, UK 05 - 07 Sep 2012
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Crass and Communal Living: Blending the Subversive into the Everyday in Epping Forest |
Authors | Dines, M. |
Abstract | Born from the debris of first-wave punk, the anarcho-punk scene was a conscious shift from the rhetorical – almost nihilistic – notion of the anarchic; from the Pistols’ shouts of ‘chaotic’ intent, towards the building of a subculture built upon co-operation and complicity. In this paper, I wish to examine this re-appropriation of ‘anarchy’ through an exploration of the anarcho-punk band Crass who, living in ‘Dial House’, a communal/collective living space in Epping Forest, were able to enact the complex relations between the musical, the artistic, and a radical lifestyle encompassing ‘anarcho’, feminist and pacifist ideals. Through highlighting the connection between artistic process and communal locale, one may distinguish a ‘space’ where punk was transformed into a seemingly theoretical anarchistic way of life; embracing a sense of political/social idealism and organised dissent, the intertwining of the political and the real, and the blending of the subversive into the everyday. |
Research Group | Music group |
Conference | Biennial IASPM-UK/Ireland conference: Imagining Communities Musically: Putting Popular Music in its Place |
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05 Sep 2012 | |
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Deposited | 17 Jan 2022 |
Accepted | 05 Sep 2012 |
Output status | Published |
Language | English |
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/89q05
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