Essential library reference guide to the deviant performance artists and musicians of the industrial culture movement. Features Survival Research Laboratories, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Non, Monte Cazazza, Johanna Went, Sordide Sentimental, R&amp;N, and Z'ev. Some topics discussed: new brain research, forbidden medical texts &amp; films, creative crime and interesting criminals, modern warfare and weaponry, neglected gore films and their directors, psychotic lyrics in past pop songs, art brut. 10 interviews, essays, quotations, chronologies, bibliographies, discographies, filmographies, sources, and index.

Industrial Culture Handbook: Re # 6/7

Humor & Entertainment

Juno, Andrea

Pop Culture

V/Search

Re/Search No. 8/9: J. G. Ballard

V. Vale

Literature & Fiction

A prank is a "trick, a mischievous act, a ludicrous act." Although not regarded as poetic or artistic acts, pranks constitute an art form and genre in themselves. Here pranksters such as Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Monte Cazazza, Jello Biafra, Earth First!, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, John Waters and Henry Rollins (and more) challenge the sovereign authority of words, images &amp; behavioral convention. This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humor, satire and irony.

Pranks !

Abbie Hoffman

Timothy Leary

John Waters

Mark Pauline

Karen Finley

Bruce Conner

Paul Krassner

Humor

hard-boiled pulp fiction author of MIAMI BLUES

High Priest of California/Wild Wives

Willeford, Charles Ray

United States

Modern Primitives': An anthropological inquiry into a contemporary social enigma--the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decoration practices such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ritual scarification.'Primitive' actions which rupture conventional confines of behavior and aesthetics are objectively scrutinized.In context of the death of global frontiers, this volume charts the territory of the last remaining underdeveloped source of first-hand experience: the human body."***CONTENTS:* Introduction * Fakir Musafar * Tattoo Mike * Man Woman * Don Ed Hardy * Captain Don * Jane Handel * Wes Christensen -- Mayan Culture * Anton Lavey * Leo Zulueta * Roelyn Gallina * Bill Salmon * Sheree Rose * Lyle Tuttle * Vaughn * Vyvyn Lazonga * Monte Cazazza * Dan Thome * Hanky Panky * Charlie Cartwright * Greg Kulz * Heather McDonald * David Levi Strauss * Jim Ward * Genesis &amp; Paul P-Orridge * Miscellaneous * Quotations * Sources * Index

Modern Primitives: Tattoo, Piercing, Scarification- An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual (RE / Search, No. 12)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle talk about advanced ideas invloving the social control process, creativity, and the future.

Re/Search 4/5: W.s. Burroughs, Brion Bysin, Throbbing Gristle

Vale, V.

This comprehensive history of the Punk scene in America in the 1970s contains more than 30 interviews which capture all the excitement, rage, and revelations of the period's new breed of musicians. Featured are Cabaret, Voltaire, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, DNA, Weirdos, Exene, Suicide, Iggy Pop, Devo, and others. Over 100 photos.

Search and Destroy 1-6: The Complete Reprint

History

Americas

Re/Search 6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook

Anthropology

Fiction. A classic of hardboiled fiction, Charles Willeford's WILD WIVES is amoral, sexy, and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early 1950's while on leave from the Army, Willeford creates a tale of deception featuring the crooked detective Jacob C. Blake and his nemesis -- a beautiful, insane young woman who is the wife of a socially prominent San Francisco architect. Blake becomes entangled in a web of deceit, intrigue and multiple murders in this exciting period tale. Mr. Willeford never puts a foot wrong, and this is truly an entertainment to relish. -- The New Yorker.

Wild Wives

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Foremost blues guitarist of the '60s and '70s Mike Bloomfield writes the tale of his early days in Chicago, where he befriends great blues legend Joe Lee Williams (AKA "Big Joe"). Together they embark on a journey to the dark, smoky blues clubs of the Midwest, encountering Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Boy Williamson, Tampa Red, Kokomo Arnold, and other blues musicians along the way. A classic American adventure story, a must read for any blues lover or musician.

Me and Big Joe

Bloomfield, Michael

Summerville, S.

Biographies & Memoirs

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