Day 16 (Fri, June 3): Punk Across Borders

For Today:

• Read: Jacopo Sanna, “The Punk Scene in Yakutsk, Russia Turns Isolation Into Inspiration,” Bandcamp, 11 Jan 2019.
• Read: Yoni Kroll, “Israeli Hardcore Sampler,” Souciant, 14 Jan 2014.
• Listen: Playlist embedded below, via Spotify.
• Watch: “Wuhan Calling: How Punk Rock Changed China’s Youth,” Goldthread.
• Due Monday, by noon: Punk Mixtape Project. 

For Further Reading & Research:

• Patrick Lyons & Angela Owens, “New York Hardcore Band Haram Reclaim Post-9/11 Trauma On Their Bold New EP,” Bandcamp, April 09, 2019.
• Kristra Mahr, “‘We rebel against the system’: inside Soweto’s thriving punk scene,” The Guardian, 30 Dec 2017.
• Punk Rock vs. Sharia Law (Noisey/Vice, 2014).
• Dan Ozzi, “In Dillinger Four We Trust,” VICE, 16 Nov 2015.
• Alex Smith, “Amygdala: A Tradition of Punk Anti-Colonial Resistance,” Bandcamp, 2 Jan 2017.
• A podcast on Cuban punk and the AIDS epidemic – “Los Frikis,” Radiolab, 24 March 2015.
• Documentary film: Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (Eye Steel Film, 2009).
• Documentary film: Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community (Filmakers Library, 2002).
• Documentary film: Squatter Punk, directed by Khavn De La Cruz (2007) – a film about squatter punks and poverty in Manila, Philippines
• https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/indonesian-punk-diy-guide
• Paul Gregoire, “Meet the Burmese Punks Feeding Their Country’s Homeless,” VICE, 13 July 2015. Here’s a very short video on Burmese punks, if you want to check it out.
• Rubén Ortiz-Torres, “Mexipunx,” in ed. Zack Furness, Punkademics (Minor Compositions, 2012), pp. 187-202.
• The Rise of Punk in Morocco
• Iron Curtain Punk – Souciant
• The East German Secret Police’s Illustrated Guide for Identifying Youth Subcultures: Punks, Goths, Teds & More (1985) | Open Culture
• How hardcore punk politicised Israel’s youth | Little Atoms
• Toronto Punk History Chapter
• Maximum RockandRoll‘s series, Create to Destroy!, has lots of great stuff on punk and hardcore across the globe.
• Carina Claassens, “Unraveling the Punk Culture of South Africa,” The Culture Trip, 1 Sept 2017.
• Great article on French hardcore in the 90s: Yoni Kroll, “Remembering Screamo,” Souciant, 13 Nov 2013.
• Christian Lahusen, “The Aesthetic of Radicalism: The Relationship between Punk and the Patriotic Nationalist Movement of the Basque Country,” Popular Music, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Oct., 1993): 263-280.
• Keri, “When Two Sevens Clash: Punk and Autonomia,” presented at the No Future conference, September 2001.
• Jeremy Wallach, “Living the Punk Lifestyle in Jakarta,” Ethnomusicology, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Winter, 2008): 98-116.
• Sheldon Birnie, “More Heart Than Brains: The History of Punk in Brandon, Manitoba,” Noisey, 21 Jan 2015.
• Sanjiv Bhattacharya, “How Islamic punk went from fiction to reality,” The Guardian, 4 Aug 2011.