Brave Punk World

Name: Brave Punk World | The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off

James Greene Jr.(Author)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published on 6. October 2017

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426 pages

978-1-4422-6984-2 (ISBN)

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Punk rock may have started in the United Kingdom and United States but it certainly didn't stay in either country. The genre flew around the globe like a contagion, touching off simultaneous movements in nearly every market imaginable: Japan, Yugoslavia, the Philippines, South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Mexico, Poland, Burma, Singapore, and Turkey, among countless others. Performing punk rock in many of these places wasn't just rebellious, it was legitimately dangerous, thanks to regimes far more oppressive and brutal than what existed in the West.

Brave Punk World immerses readers in these foreign scenes, describing the lifestyles and art of passionate, hard-charging groups who remain secret to the punk majority but who are just as crucial as the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. James Greene, Jr. explores Brazilian bands like Ulster who angrily protested and openly mocked their region's cruel dictatorship, Germans such as Slime who see many of their songs still banned to this day, the Algerian-by-way-of-France performers Carte de Sejour who had an alleged hand in inspiring the landmark Clash hit "Rock The Casbah," and a galaxy of other punk groups from more exotic locales.

Punk diehards and travel enthusiasts with a taste for chaos will enjoy the country-by-country cultural explorations and wild stories offered within these pages.

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Greene, Jr., who wrote a killer biography of the Misfits a couple of years ago, not only leaves American cities like New York and Seattle to find punk, he literally spans the globe encyclopedically chronicling the bands, scenes, fanzines, and cultural phenomenon of the musical movement everywhere else in the universe." - Substream's "Top Ten Music Books of 2017 * Substream Magazine * I absolutely inhaled this book! Greene's writing is filled with enthusiastic taste and warmth and fascinating tales of anti-establishment action. This book is the condensed proof that punk rock erupted all over the world at the same time. -- Rolf Yngve Uggen, guitarist, Gluecifer and Smoke Mohawk In this fascinating and well-researched book, James shares the highlights of punk music from lands all over this very Earth...James does a fantastic job of a) setting the stage of what each society is like, be it repressive, corrupt, conservative, liberal, violent, impoverished, etc, and (b) outlining the histories and key releases of the most important bands...I loved this book. -- Mark Prindle

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