No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk Softcover Book

No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt. Retail price $27.99
Brand new book. Released Oct 18, 2022.
It's a 312 page softcover.
" After punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how England’s state-funded education policy brought together art studen