Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (33 1/3) - Softcover

Michael Stewart Foley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623567300 ISBN 13: 9781623567309

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

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Review

An accomplished historian with an appreciation for the punk ethic, Foley sketches the social and political conditions of the late 1970s and the band's take-no-prisoners response to them. He's also alert to San Francisco's distinctive punk scene and its unapologetically political stance. His essay is a welcome complement to the extensive literature on the city's utopian mood and music of the 1960s. ... Very worthwhile.
- Peter Richardson,San Francisco State University

Wish all books dealing with 'Punk Rock were as well researched as this one!
- V. Vale, Editor, Search and Destroy

Author Michael Stewart Foley explores the band s genesis from two equally critical points of view in his eponymous book in the 33 1/3 series, the political and social factors alive in California at the time as well as the stew of underground creativity that fed punk s fetid blossom ... Foley s book does the album a good turn, his eye for the social inspirations behind Biafra and others, as well as the creative are essential to its understanding.
--- Bearded Magazine

Michael Stewart Foley's new book on Dead Kennedys' debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, rests a jarring assertion: 'By ... the summer of 1978, San Francisco had established itself as home to the most political punk scene in the country. His evidence a litany of benefit efforts, topical songs, and punks' steady solidarity with other marginalized groups is solid, so why does the statement leap off of the page? Perhaps because of how infrequently it's made ... the sort of retrospective historical works that would involve a claim such as Foley's are few and far between, all of which underscores the need for this book.
- East Bay Express

Well worth your time. Get the book, put the album on loud, and rejoice. -- - Thumped

Michael Stewart Foley's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is a must read not only for punks young and old, but for anyone who has ever felt even the slightest revolutionary pang in their soul ... Through interviews with Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Klaus Fluoride (as well as many other important figures close to, or in the scene at the time) and a mountain of research, Foley puts together a book that is academic, personal, informative, and most importantly, convincing. For those already familiar with Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, this book further solidifies its greatness among records in any genre. For those new to the album, this book provides an extensive and comprehensive look into a body of work whose release exploded on the scene because of the pressures caused by the era, events, and people that all came together to create it. -- - Matt Caltabiano, Under the Radar

About the Author

Michael Stewart Foley is author of Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s (2013), among other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1623567300
• ISBN 13: 9781623567309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160