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Podcast: New Books in Western European Studies
Episode: Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)
Description: In Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave (Intellect Publishing, 2022), Simon Strange explores the relationship between art and music within education in the United Kingdom. Strange examines the diverse range of people who broke down the barriers between art, life, and the creative self. He looks at art school Britain in the 1960s and â70s, a hotbed of experimental DIY creativity that blurred the lines between art and music. Tracing lines from the Bauhaus âblank slateâ through the white heat of the Velvet Underground and the cutting edge of the Slits, Blank Canvas draws on interviews with giants of...