Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

Michael Blair (Independent Scholar, USA), Joe Bucciero (Independent Scholar, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
04 May 2017

Music reviews & criticism; Punk, New Wave & Indie; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: 33 1/3

Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album’s cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history—relegated to cult status among post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to the band’s singular approach and response to punk rock. Instead of employing overt political ideology and abrasive sounds to rebel against the status quo, Young Marble Giants filled their songs with restraint, ambiguity, and silence. The trio opened up their music to new sounds and ideas that redefined punk’s rules of rebellion. Where did their rebellious ideas and impulses come from? By tracing Colossal Youth’s artistic origins from Ancient Greece to the 20th-century avant-garde, Michael Blair and Joe Bucciero uncover the intricacies of Young Marble Giants’ idiosyncratic take on music in the post-punk age. Emerging from the gaps in between the notes are new ways of hearing the history of punk, the political and economic turbulence of the late 1970s, and the world that surrounds us right now.

By: Michael Blair (Independent Scholar USA), Joe Bucciero (Independent Scholar, USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 121mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 166g
ISBN: 9781501321146
ISBN 10: 1501321145
Series: 33 1/3
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 04 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Blair grew up in St. Louis and lives in New York. He works at BOMB Magazine and is a founding member of the Hi Fi Snock Uptown collective. Joe Bucciero is a writer born in Chicago and based in New York. He helps edit the music zine AdHoc and the journal Blank Forms, and has written for the Quietus, the Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, and others.