Basato sulle interviste e i racconti orali di Malcolm McLaren, John Lydon, Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Joe Strummer, Siouxsie Sioux, Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley, Sylvain Sylvain, Richard Hell, Capt. Sensible, Adam Ant, Jordan Mooney, Viv Albertine e tanti altri ancora. Questo è il libro definitivo sui Sex Pistols, sull'ascesa della cultura musicale ed estetica alla quale appartenevano, e sul loro tempo: la rovinosa era di Margaret Thatcher. Puntellato di aneddoti, approfondimenti ed interviste esclusive, Savage racconta la storia fulminea del punk, riallacciando i fili culturali a quanto in precedenza era apparso tra le avanguardie artistiche: dal lettrismo al situazionismo, dagli stili degli anni Cinquanta al pop degli anni Sessanta. Il punk fece paura. A tutti. Portare i capelli in un certo modo, indossare il giubbotto di pelle, le t-shirt con le svastiche, i sacchi della spazzatura e gli accessori sado-maso come abiti, erano atti provocatori che comportavano un certo coraggio. La creativa contestazione del Giubileo della regina Elisabetta fu l'onta definitiva contro l'orgoglio nazionalista, un'onta contro 'il sogno inglese', da lavare a ogni costo. Per mesi i componenti del gruppo, ma anche tanti punk comuni, furono braccati e aggrediti per strada da ex militari, teddy boys, skinhead e balordi vari. Con il sostegno dei tabloid scandalistici, i punk diventarono la feccia della nazione, il 'folk devil', il nemico pubblico. A tale panico sociale i Pistols, guidati dal folle genio di Malcolm McLaren, invece di arretrare, risposero rilanciando la provocazione. Il tu

«Voglio solo continuare a essere così come siamo. Vogliamo suonare quel che ci piace suonare. E quando smetterà di piacerci Be', sarà il momento di chiudere la baracca. Sarà la fine.» Così diceva Ian Curtis il 28 febbraio del 1980, nel corso di un'intervista radiofonica. Neanche tre mesi dopo, la fine sarebbe arrivata davvero, per colpa di un suicidio annunciato. La morte di Curtis chiuse la storia dei Joy Division per consegnarli alla leggenda. Una leggenda che ritroviamo intatta in questo libro che Jon Savage ha realizzato raccogliendo e intrecciando trent'anni di confessioni dei protagonisti della scena post-punk: dai membri della band ai gruppi con cui hanno condiviso il palco (Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio), dal produttore Tony Wilson al grafico Peter Saville, dai fotografi che li hanno immortalati ai tecnici che ne hanno plasmato il suono. La foto di gruppo di una generazione che ha riscritto le regole della musica.

A definitive celebration packed with previously unseen material of the original punk band—the group that defined a movement, energized a generation, and brought punk music and the safety-pin aesthetic to the mainstream. The Sex Pistols have defined the look, sound, and feel of the punk movement since they formed in London in 1975. Together for less than three years—a short run that included just four singles and one studio album before they broke up in 1978—their impact on the musical and cultural landscape of the last forty years is nothing short of remarkable. The Sex Pistols—Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Glen Matlock (later to be replaced by Sid Vicious)—were brought together by the cultural impresario Malcolm McLaren. Between the cultivated attitude of the players themselves, the aggressive management of McLaren, and the tremendous success of their era-defining album Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, the band embodied the punk spirit and colored the worlds of music, fashion, youth culture, and design forever. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the band’s formation, Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage draw on an unprecedented wealth of material—from McLaren’s handwritten letters to never-before-seen photographs of the band, Jamie Reid’s iconic album artwork, and a range of ephemera from concert tickets to fanzines—to produce the most comprehensive visual history of the band ever produced and a bible of popular culture for years to come. "

The pace of technological change has made the immediate and long-term future difficult, if not impossible, to predict. Teachers are forced to imagine the world they are preparing their students to live in. In this situation creativity becomes a vital resource to enable uncertain futures to be embraced and an important attribute for students to have both for their learning and their future employability.

In this book the authors argue that creativity is a social and collaborative process that can be enhanced through online and digital technologies. It shows teachers how they can develop an approach to teaching and learning with digital technologies that is inherently social, collaborative and creative. Including case studies and practical examples of projects and lessons throughout, the chapters cover:

• using digital media to plan schemes of work and lessons

• how to facilitate meaningful collaboration and discussion through digital media

• creating online environments to enable students to share their understandings and learning

• potential pitfalls of virtual learning environments and public social networking sites

Bringing together key ideas about creativity, collaborative learning and ICT in the classroom, this timely book will be a valuable resource for all teachers .

The pace of technological change has made the immediate and long-term future difficult, if not impossible, to predict. Teachers are forced to imagine the world they are preparing their students to live in. In this situation creativity becomes a vital resource to enable uncertain futures to be embraced and an important attribute for students to have both for their learning and their future employability.

In this book the authors argue that creativity is a social and collaborative process that can be enhanced through online and digital technologies. It shows teachers how they can develop an approach to teaching and learning with digital technologies that is inherently social, collaborative and creative. Including case studies and practical examples of projects and lessons throughout, the chapters cover:

• using digital media to plan schemes of work and lessons

• how to facilitate meaningful collaboration and discussion through digital media

• creating online environments to enable students to share their understandings and learning

• potential pitfalls of virtual learning environments and public social networking sites

Bringing together key ideas about creativity, collaborative learning and ICT in the classroom, this timely book will be a valuable resource for all teachers .

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to recovering the contributions of thinkers marginalized by both their race and their gender, these essays uncover the work of unconventional intellectuals, both formally educated and self-taught, and explore the broad community of ideas in which their work participated. The end result is a field-defining and innovative volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture.

Contributors are Mia E. Bay, Judith Byfield, Alexandra Cornelius, Thadious Davis, Corinne T. Field, Arlette Frund, Kaiama L. Glover, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherie Randolph, Barbara D. Savage, Jon Sensbach, Maboula Soumahoro, and Cheryl Wall.

How can your local area become a source of inspiration for curriculum development?

How can it enhance the teaching and learning at your school?

Developing a Local Curriculum explores how your local area and its resources can be used as a stimulus and inspiration for curriculum development. It examines the ways in which the geography, history, culture and people within your local area can enrich the learning experiences offered to students to make them more relevant and meaningful.

Drawing on a wide range of examples from schools already taking this approach, the book shows show how the rich histories and cultures of individual subjects can be developed through an understanding of the local area. It also reveals how engaging with the 'local' in education can help restore young people's sense of identity and community. Features include:

· practical guidance on engaging with the local community in innovative ways

· suggestions for local cultural activities such as architecture, digital arts, theatre and film

· ways to develop effective partnerships with local businesses and charities

· detailed case studies showing how schools put the ideas described into practice

This exciting new book aims to inspire you to develop a curriculum that is meaningful for pupils and gives them a strong sense of connection with their local area and understanding of its past, future and present.

In August 1993, when Nirvana was in New York to perform at the legendary Roseland Ballroom, Jesse Frohman photographed them for the London Observer’s Sunday magazine—the last formal photo shoot in which Cobain participated before he committed suicide on April 5th, 1994.Over the course of ninety photographs, Cobain seems an almost feral creature, by turns gentle, playful, defiant, suffering, or absorbed in his music. There’s a diverse range of shots of Cobain with fellow band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl and on his own, posing, performing, and greeting fans. Jon Savage’s original interview, which appeared with Frohman’s photographs in the Observer is also reproduced, giving us Cobain in his own words. The book is a touching tribute to Cobain twenty years after his tragic demise, and following Nirvana’s recent induction in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

So This Is Permanence presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis.

The fact of the band's relatively few releases belies the power and enduring fascination its music holds, especially in light of Curtis's tragic suicide in 1980 on the eve of the band's first American tour.

Reproduced in this beautiful clothbound volume are Curtis's never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, accompanied by earlier drafts and previously unpublished pages from his notebooks that shed fascinating light on his writing and creative process.

Also included are an insightful and moving foreword by Curtis's widow Deborah, a substantial introduction by writer Jon Savage, and an appendix featuring books from Curtis's library and a selection of fanzine interviews, letters, and other ephemera from his estate.

A-Z of Teaching

The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers.

The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary writing and contextualises these in both theoretical and practical terms. The extracts are accompanied by a summary of the key ideas and issues raised, questions to promote discussion and reflective practice, and annotated further reading lists to extend thinking.

Taking a thematic approach and including a short introduction to each theme, the chapters cover:

• Analysing your own work as a music teacher;
• Concepts of musicality;
• Notions of musical development and progression;
• Pedagogies for teaching music musically;
• Music inside and outside the school;
• Formal, informal and non-formal approaches to music education;
• Productive methods of assessment and transition for music education;
• Creativity and music education;
• Supporting the gifted and talented in music;
• Using ICT within music education.

Aimed at trainee and newly qualified teachers including those working towards Masters-level qualifications, as well practicing teachers, this accessible, but critically provocative text will be an essential resource for all teachers that wish to deepen their understanding of Music Education.

From posters for punk-rock bands and indie filmmakers to fanzines and other independent publications, the art of the punk movement revolutionized design in ways whose influence is still felt today, and reflected the consciousness of a counterculture with a clarity seldom seen since. 

Drawing on private and public archives of rare material from around the world, this heavily illustrated book presents an unrivaled collection of punk art and ephemera that incorporates every aspect of the movement, from the earliest occurrences of punk symbolism in posters and flyers for underground bands to the explosion of fanzines and Xerox culture, and from rare photographs of musicians such as the Sex Pistols and the Screamers to the artwork of Crass, Jamie Reid, John Holmstrom, and the contemporary street artist Banksy.

With more than three hundred images and accompanying essays by Johan Kugelberg, Jon Savage, and William Gibson, this definitive visual narrative illustrates how the DIY ethic of the punk era inspired a movement in graphic arts and design whose influence is still felt among the most significant figures in the fields today.

I giovani non sono sempre esistiti. Al contrario: sono stati inventati. In America e in Europa, a cavallo tra Ottocento e Novecento, un nuovo attore sociale e un nuovo stile di vita si sono fatti strada in modo prepotente fino a rivoluzionare il costume e la società. Jon Savage racconta questa rivoluzione in un libro che parte dai sogni di ribellione della generazione romantica e attraversa due secoli di fermenti e tormenti, entusiasmi e angosce: Peter Pan e il mito dell'eterna giovinezza, la fondazione dei boy scout, lo shock della Prima guerra mondiale, lo sviluppo di una psicologia dell'adolescenza, la militarizzazione della gioventù nella Germania hitleriana e nell'Italia fascista, la diffusione di nuovi stili musicali dal ragtime allo swing al rock'n'roll, la nascita della pubblicità e di un mercato pronto a sfruttare economicamente i nuovi gusti e la nuova cultura di massa. Fino alla consacrazione definitiva, quando nel giugno 1945 - poche settimane prima dello scoppio della bomba atomica su Hiroshima e Nagasaki - il 'New York Times' annuncia trionfante che 'i teenager sono un'invenzione americana'. Da quel momento in poi il mondo non sarà più lo stesso. Il futuro sarà dei teenager.

Designed to support teachers in developing new strategies and pedagogies for teaching music, and for teacher education students requiring a comprehensive overview of the subject, Teaching Secondary Music provides a modern and accessible of key issues in music education at secondary level. Focusing on the nature of musical understanding and how to facilitate and assess musical progress, the editors bring together a team of experienced music educators leading the program of support for the secondary curriculum. Supported with practical examples, case studies and resources exploring effective practice, Teaching Secondary Music covers the key concepts and approaches which underpin good practice in secondary music education.