Read & Burn A Book About Wire

Read & Burn is the first serious, indepth appraisal of Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historical accident. Despite the fact that they had complicated and transformed that category almost before they'd begun, they seem never to have quite escaped the label. Be it punk, postpunk, or artpunk, critics have clung onto the pword in an attempt to capture the essence of Wire's innovative uniqueness. But their story which honours punk's original yet quickly forgotten commitment to the new is one of constant remaking and remodelling, one that stubbornly resists reduction to a single identity. As a result, the group's projects have always balanced uneasily between artistic endeavour and the need for commercial sustainability, played out against the backdrop of the musicians' perennially complex creative relationships. Tracing Wire's diverse output from 1977 up until the present, Read & Burn seeks to do justice to their highly influential and restlessly inventive body of work.

ISBN:	9781908279330
Publisher:	Jawbone Press
Imprint:	Jawbone Press
Published date:	05 Apr 2013
DEWEY:	781.660922
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	429
Weight:	922g
Height:	215mm
Width:	176mm
Spine width:	27mm

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