Music in a Word Volume 2: Fandom and Fascinations by Ira A. Robbins

Author:Ira A. Robbins [Robbins, Ira A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Trouser Press Books
Published: 2021-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

If any rock band ever insisted on doing it their way, the Clash take first-place honors, despite the price their nonconformity exacted. Nonetheless (or as a result), they became enormously popular, even in America, where their Top 20 chart success stands as redemptive proof of an indomitable spirit. The Clash received no small amount of criticism over the years: damned for their integrity (or lack thereof); assailed for absorbing black musical styles; attacked for injecting politics into their songs; blamed for changing; blamed for not changing; ridiculed for having ideals; accused of abandoning them. They were branded sell-outs, hypocrites, rockists, opportunists and worse. Through it all, the Clash consistently proved equal to the task of confounding everyone that ever followed or dealt with them, offering contradictory and inconsistent statements in classic Bob Dylan obfuscatory oratory and generally failing to act in their own self-interest.

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