A history of punk : punk & pistolry
Palmer, Stephen, 1962-2025
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In 'A History of Punk Music', Stephen Palmer depicts the punk rock explosion of 1976-77 in tired, bored, and socially stratified Britain. Emerging from the litter-strewn streets of London, punk's music expressed the suppressed anger of young working-class people with nowhere to go and nothing meaningful to do. Its music was raw and shocking. Its fashion mocked staid middle-class values. Its art was expressed in cut-outs and by sprayed graffiti. Yet beneath this sudden explosion, frightening to those of the establishment who witnessed it, incomprehensible to white-collar workers commuting to and from work, lay a philosophy of individual creative expression and an ethic of anti-racism and liberation for women. Punk in its original form was a movement of human liberation, a Year Zero moment in the history of a nation more used to colonial exploits and a vast empire.
Main title:
A history of punk : punk & pistolry / Stephen Palmer.
Author:
Palmer, Stephen, 1962-, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : White Owl, 2025.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781036120306 (hbk)
Dewey class:
781.66094109047781.6609781.6609/HBKM781.6609
LC class:
ML3534.6.G7
Local class:
781.66
Language:
English
BRN:
4233680