Trash has been blowing across the rock n roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock s quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence.
Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock s trash trope. Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene---think of Woodstock s littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful...
Trash has been blowing across the rock n roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, ...
