Product details:
ISBN13: | 9798887440392 |
ISBN10: | 8887440395 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 384 pages |
Size: | 228x152 mm |
Language: | English |
700 |
Category:
Orstralia
A Punk History 1974-1989
Publisher: Pm Press
Date of Publication: 9 July 2024
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Far from punk's more modish North Atlantic core in the late 1970s, discontented youth in Australia were enacting similar musical and cultural reckonings. Yet in spite of the Australia's purported 'laid-back' national demeanour, punks there were routinely met with insult, fist, or the police baton. More subterranean than the national scandal that was punk back in 'homeland' Britain, Australia's own bands nonetheless came to be heralded internationally. Orstralia represents the first definitive account of the country's initial years, from progenitors the Saints and Radio Birdman in the mid-70s, through the emergence of hardcore in the 1980s, to the stylistic diffusion that accompanied transition to the 1990s. Based on over 130 interviews, Orstralia documents the most renowned to the most fleeting and obscure acts the nation produced. Included are equally engrossing and shocking personal narratives befitting such a passionate and intemperate cultural form, as well as punk's placement within broader Australian society at the time.