TY - JOUR
TI - Cover manifestos. Musical strategies to overcome cultural oppression
AU - Juszczyk, Andrzej
TI - Cover manifestos. Musical strategies to overcome cultural oppression
AB - In this article, I would like to focus on covers that reveal their strongly transgressive function, forcing the recipient to rethink and reinterpret the canon of popular music. Covers that I analyze in terms of music, text, image, etc., although they formally “reverse” only one specific song, become an opportunity to polemicize with the output of a given artist, the entire genre or style, or finally with the attitude and worldview represented by the original. Transgression on the aesthetic level is also accompanied by transgression on the level of sexual, class or racial identity. For the purposes of the article, the material will be limited to the covers from the 1970s (Ramblin’ Rose by Jerry Lee Lewis / MC5, Love Is Strange by Mickey & Sylvia / Trash by New York Dolls, Helter Skelter by The Beatles / Siouxsie and the Banshees), because in this period (on the basis of punk and post-punk music) similar practices were the most intense.
VL - 2023
IS - Issue 3 (57) Muzyczne transgresje, inwersje, brikolaże. Kulturowe warianty muzyki popularnej
PY - 2023
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 293
EP - 307
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.23.021.18579
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/covery-manifesty-muzyczne-strategie-przezwyciezania-kulturowej-opresji
KW - covers
KW - punk
KW - post-punk
KW - MC5
KW - New York Dolls
KW - Siouxsie Sioux
KW - The Beatles
KW - Jerry Lee Lewis
KW - Mickey & Sylvia