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S.O.B.'s Don't Be Swindle

S.O.B.'s Don't Be Swindle

Manabe, Noriko
Murphy, Mahon
Zwigenberg, Ran

Paperback

Series: 33 1/3 Japan

General MusicGeneral World HistoryPunk

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ISBN13: 9798765108963
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 6 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

This book chronicles the Kyoto/Kansai 1980s hardcore punk scene through the album Don't Be Swindle by S.O.B., with a focus on Kyoto's main venues and the networks they created.

Apart from being the center of Japan's cultural heritage, Kyoto is home to one of Japan's leading avant-garde art and music scenes. The Kyoto University-affiliated venue Seibu Kodo has historically been the focus of this scene, creating an ethos and organizational core which hosted major international acts such as Frank Zappa and Talking Heads while pushing more local experimental and political acts. The hardcore punks in Kyoto, most of whom were high-school dropouts, borrowed the organizational structure and interacted with Seibu Kodo and its committees to create their own scene. By focusing on the seminal hardcore album Don't Be Swindle by S.O.B. and using rich archival material, this book explains the connections and entanglements of space and scene in 1980s punk.

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