We must repeat : critical edition of DEVO's "Jocko Homo"

• Other Authors: Bath, Jon
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DEVO; de-evolution; devolution; critical edition; New Wave; post-punk; industrial; Jocko Homo
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-10-1137

This project sets out to create a critical edition of the DEVO song “Jocko Homo,” which is found on multiple releases throughout the band's career, most notably on their breakthrough studio album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO! The album recording was used as the base text for this edition (the words themselves determined by what is heard on the album and the formatting determined by the lyric sheet which accompanies the album), with variants from five other officially-released recordings included as footnotes. Explanatory notes are also included at the end of the text, to illuminate surrounding contexts and allusions. Finally, an appendix is attached featuring an early live performance found on the bootleg album DEVO Ultracore 1974-77, along with explanatory notes. While it was not included in the main body of the project on the basis of its being an unofficial fan release, it is still worth examining as an early version of “Jocko Homo.”