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Wreckers of Civilisation

The Story of Coum Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle

By (author) Simon Ford
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Black Dog Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Black Dog Publishing Ltd
Published: 3rd Sep 2001
Dimensions: w 190mm h 250mm
Weight: 946g
ISBN-10: 1901033600
ISBN-13: 9781901033601
Barcode No: 9781901033601
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Synopsis
"These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exclaimed the conservative Member of Parliment Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians - Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fani Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter. What "these people" had done to deserve such an epithet, and what they were about to do, is the subject of this book. From the forword by Jon Savage: Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that impulse: even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country.

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