Question 2

Eventhough the quote by Griel Marcus was written in 1989 looking back upon the late 70s, the Sex Pistols are still important today in 2007. They were revolutionary and they still are in some way and that's why I can really agree with his quote. It makes history more open ended because if you go up to a little kid and ask him to name something that happened in history, he'll most likely talk about Columbus or the Wright brothers, but he made the Sex Pistols just as an important part of history as the others. Looking back on what I know about the Sex Pistols, they really fit in to what the chapter was talking about because they were more about the behind the scenes of history and not just the big outcome. Because of where we are today from the Sex Pistols, musically or fashion-wise, we can look back on them with our new ideas and relate them. This reminds me of art history when we will look at a painting and study it using the knowledge we have today. We can look at a painting now and see the opression of women back then while when the artsist was painting, he probably didn't put much thought to it. We keep having a new way of looking at things which causes rewrites. It's funny though how the Sex Pistols only put out the one album and yet they were so influential that people are still talking about them almost thirty years later.