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False Prophet: Fieldnotes from the Punk Underground. By Steven Taylor. (Music / Culture). Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. [332 p. ISBN 0-8195-6667-5. $70 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8195-6668-3. $24.95 (pbk.)] Illustrations, bibliography, index, compact disc.
At a moment of transition between the two principal sections of False Prophet, Steven Taylor discloses that some readers of the book in manuscript form had observed that "what's presented is 'really two books.'" Taylor considers the prospect with amusement, and gestures toward his present reader as though offering a bargain: "two for the price of one" (p. 81). Whether the bifurcated structure of False ...