Out of the Basement

From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, Il, 1973-2005

von David A Ensminger

Taschenbuch, ab 14 Jahre

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Out of the Basement tells the story of underground music (and mainstream rock that sometimes rose out of it) in post-industrial Rockford, Illinois. This is a bracing, candid, democratic, and cutting edge portrayal of a rust belt city full of rebel kids making DIY music despite the odds. It combines oral history, brutally honest memoir, music history, and a sense of blunt poetics to capture the ethos of life in the 1970s-2000s, long before the Internet made punk accessible to small towners. From dusty used record stores and frenetic skating rinks to dank basements and sweat-piled gigs to the radical forebears like the local IWW chapter, the book follows the stories of rebels struggling to find spaces and a sense of community and their place in underground history.

• ISBN: 9781621067665
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2017
• Größe: 177 x 142 mm
• Verlag: Microcosm Publishing
• Empf. Lesealter: ab 14 Jahre