The last few months, however, have brought news from abroad suggesting that in many places, punk's combination of splenetic dissent, loud guitars and outre attire can cause as much disquiet and outrage as ever. The stories concerned take in Indonesia, Burma, Iraq and Russia – and most highlight one big difference between the hoo-hah kicked up by punk in the US and Britain of the late 70s, and the reactions it now stirs thousands of miles from its places of birth. Back then, being a punk rocker might invite occasional attacks in the street, a ban on your records, and the odd difficulty finding somewhere to play. Now, if you pursue a love of punk in the wrong political circumstances, you may well experience oppression at its most brutal: torture, imprisonment, what one regime calls "moral rehabilitation" and even death.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Yank/Limebag Poseurs Fuck Off
Those for whom the electric guitar is the sound of liberation.
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Insert "First World Problems" comment...
The fact that punk (rap as well- Jon Savage referred to rap as "the Black punk" because of the shared DIY aesthetic) has become a sort of shared vocabulary in the arena of dissent is pretty amazing.
According to a recent article in the German magazine Der Spiegel, many of their gigs are organised by a local punk impresario called Ko Nyan: his founding place in Burmese punk culture was sparked when he found a magazine featuring the Sex Pistols in a bin behind Rangoon's British embassy
Wow, talk about the fall of a tiny stone triggering an avalanche!
There's a lot of really good chaotic video out there of Pussy Riot. Good luck to them.
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Damn, we may have to read more than a paragraph or two of it.
Not the Russki fake lesbians, then?
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