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[quote=demonrail666]You're right in terms of most punk but I was referring explicitely to TG. You might be correct that they too don't qualify as avant-garde as defined by Adorno, but they certainly don't fall into the three chords and you're away school either. And Adorno only really celebrated Schoenberg's atonality because he saw it as irreducible to 'kitsch' which, as Atari has already mentioned, brings Walter Benjamin into the equation, etc, etc.
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Gotcha. Sort of. What Benjamin are we referring to? Just wondering.
Anyone find it odd that the Sex Pistol's have an anti-abortion song (albeit one probably not embraced by the majority of Right to Lifers)?
Aren't the Clash and The Pistols total opposites? Isn't one is "anti-ignorance, pro-creativity" and the other is all about mindless destruction? When Johnny wants to destroy passerby, would that include punks as well? When Joe wants a white riot, isn't that a means to a political end?
Can I just ask directly what has been hinted at: What is punk?
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