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Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution
Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution
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In March 1977, John Johnny Rotten Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle finger. He didn't know it at the time, but the Sex
Pistols' reputation had preceded his gesture, as young people in the Second World busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his
art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw's nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert, which brought together 100,000 First World UK punks and Third World Caribbean immigrants who contributed their
cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War's worlds. The first global narrative of punk, Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War, blurring the boundaries between East and West, North and South, communism and capitalism through performances of creative dissent. As author Raymond A. Patton
argues, punk eroded the boundaries and political categories that defined the Cold War Era, replacing them with a new framework based on identity as conservative or progressive. Through this paradigm shift, punk unwittingly ushered in a new era of global neoliberalism.
Author: Raymond A. Patton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/02/2018
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190872366
Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2019
Pistols' reputation had preceded his gesture, as young people in the Second World busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his
art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw's nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert, which brought together 100,000 First World UK punks and Third World Caribbean immigrants who contributed their
cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War's worlds. The first global narrative of punk, Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War, blurring the boundaries between East and West, North and South, communism and capitalism through performances of creative dissent. As author Raymond A. Patton
argues, punk eroded the boundaries and political categories that defined the Cold War Era, replacing them with a new framework based on identity as conservative or progressive. Through this paradigm shift, punk unwittingly ushered in a new era of global neoliberalism.
Author: Raymond A. Patton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/02/2018
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190872366
Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2019
About the Author
Raymond A. Patton is Director of Educational Partnerships and General Education at John Jay College of the City University of New York. He has also served as a professor and Director of the Global and Transnational Studies program at Drury University. He has taught courses on a wide variety of interdisciplinary topics, and once played saxophone in an obscure 3rd wave ska-punk band.
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