Crass Reflections

by Alastair Gordon

Crass Reflections is a revised and extended version of Gordon’s Throwing the Punk Rock Baby Out with the Bath Water: Crass and Punk Rock a Critical Appraisal, originally published in 1996. That text had its own origins in Gordon’s undergraduate thesis.

Crass Reflections revisits, revises and extends the text of Throwing the Punk Rock Baby and comes with a lengthy new scene-setting introduction by Gordon. The book has been designed by Russ Bestley, and includes a Foreword by Crass’s Penny Rimbaud.

Genres: Music, Punk, Nonfiction

194 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Alastair Gordon is an award-winning critic, curator, cultural historian and author whose work bridges art, architecture and the environment. For over twenty years he wrote for The New York Times and later became Contributing Editor for WSJ. Magazine, where he also created the popular “Wall-to-Wall” design blog. His essays have appeared in Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Le Monde and Dwell, among others. The author of more than twenty-eight books, including Weekend Utopia, Naked Airport and Theater of Shopping, Gordon also co-founded Gordon de Vries Studio, an imprint devoted to books on the human environment. He has taught at Harvard University and received multiple honors for excellence in architectural criticism.

Reviews

[Nikola · Rating 3 out of 5]

More about the analysis of (anarcho) punk music through Marxist theory viewpoints. The writer is self-aware of its academic approach, but, since it's was written as a graduation thesis, this can be forgiven. Noting much about the music of the Crass itself but more interesting for some sociology/philosophy student. There are lots of interesting thoughts throughout the book.

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very academic in it's approach and really suffers from it.