"The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"-- "It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the co…
Vivien Goldman, probes four themes; identity, money, love, and protest, to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a b…
"As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes--identity, money, love, and protest--to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form f…
"Germany has one of the liveliest and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunificat…
Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion of alternative culture across divided Germany, and punk was a critical constituent of this movement. For young Germans at the time, …
"Just as Punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal mo…
"This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence punk has had on comics produced in other countries,…
Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world.
Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world
Om den nye og mere provokerende punkmusik, der opstod i Los Angeles i slutningen af 70'erne. Perioden forsøges genskabt via interview med en række af de personer, der var med