"This important contribution to popular music studies is the first collection of critical essays on John Mellor and challenges the existing narratives around the idol Joe Strummer. Overall, the book can be recommended to scholars and fans who have a general interest in punk rock, The Clash, and a critical approach towards the human being behind the Joe Strummer label."
- Dr André Rottgeri, Universität Passau, Universität Paderborn, HfM Karlsruhe
"Barry J. Faulk and Brady Harrisons edited collection of essays on The Clashs frontman, Joe Strummer, Punk Rock Warlord: The Life and Work of Joe Strummer, reads much like the experience of a punk rock gig: there are strong, conflicting views expressed in different styles and tones, and excitement and inspiration spring up from the various chapters. The editors have purposefully gathered a group of informed, yet diverse voices-from academics spanning the disciplines of history, English, and communication studies, to public service workers turned teachers, to independent writers, artists, and journalists."
"What this collection of voices adds to the growing field of popular music studies is a new urgency, in the words of the editors, to break away from the universal perspective of modernism that has dominated the study of music and instead to focus on the vexed problem of what constitutes authenticity in music and to offer a critique of musical practice as the product of free, individual expression. Given the explosion of new studies of punk rock and popular culture and the already growing body of work and documentaries on Joe Strummer and The Clash, Faulk and Harrisons volume is a timely re-assessment of punks year zero moment of the mid-to-late 1970s and indeed provides a nuanced, complex account of one of punk rocks earliest icons."
"A timely, comprehensive portrait of a widely discussed and often misunderstood punk artist. It is an accessible collection of scholarship coming from diverse backgrounds that pushes beyond mere idolatrous popular praise or critics squabbles about a bands integrity or worth and informs its audience of Strummers real achievements in music and politics as well as the sometimes paradoxical nature of his professed beliefs. The essays also provide sound cultural and historical context of Britains complex social, racial, and economic landscapes during the 1970s and 1980s." "This important contribution to popular music studies is the first collection of critical essays on John Mellor and challenges the existing narratives around the idol Joe Strummer. Overall, the book can be recommended to scholars and fans who have a general interest in punk rock, The Clash, and a critical approach towards the human being behind the Joe Strummer label."
- Dr André Rottgeri, Universität Passau, Universität Paderborn, HfM Karlsruhe
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