SOURCE: "The Shifting Relations of Literature and Popular Music in Postwar England," in Discourse, Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall-Winter, 1989-90, pp. 78-103.
In the following essay, Nehring relates the transformation of literary texts by subculture music groups in postwar England—specifically, the Rolling Stones' appropriation of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and the Sex Pistols' resurrection of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock—to the avant-garde tradition in aesthetic theory, also discussing Colin MacInnes's documentation of the London music scene of the 1950s in his novel Absolute Beginners.
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