Postmodern Sensibilities in the Post-Punk Music of ‘The Click’ and ‘Nosei Hamigbaat’, 1980-1991
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Post-Punk, Israeli Post-Punk, Fredric Jameson, Lawrence Grossberg, Postmodern Culture, Israeli IdentityAbstract
This article deals with two acclaimed Israeli post-punk music groups, The Click and Nosei Hamigba’at (The Tophat Carriers), that were active between 1980 and 1991. The author bases his theory mainly on Frederic Jameson and Lawrence Grossberg’s work on postmodern culture. The postmodern aesthetics of Israeli popular music conveys detachment from various cultural, philosophical and melodic features of earlier Israeli popular music, such as folk songs and early Israeli rock. Through two case studies, the author discusses a variety of approaches – some gradual – that undermined the Israeli consensus. This music also conveys skepticism about the perception of the Hebrew language and the abandonment of nature and the Israeli landscape, which were so significant in the evolution of Israeli music. The music of these groups communicates an aloofness from Israeli identity that is expressed via postmodern sensibilities.
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