Orstralia : A punk history 1974-1989 / Tristan Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Tristan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punk rock music--Australia--History and criticism.

Punk rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2024]

Summary:

With appeal to more than just punk history obsessives, Orstralia offers an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history. 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1974-1981

"I Only Panic When There's Nothing to Do" Queensland

"Descent into the Maelstrom" New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory

"After a Fashion" Victoria

"Shitpile" Tasmania

"Life on the Dole" South Australia and Northern Territory

"Arsehole of the Universe" Western Australia

Photo Section

1982-1989

"Dead Before Retirement" Victoria

"Cog City" Tasmania

"Y Bother" New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory

"Non Regulation Fun" Queensland

"Can You Dance to Feedback?" South Australia and Northern Territory

"Conservative Trash" Western Australia

Afterword

Notes

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798887440491

OCLC:

1434178678