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Belfast punk and the Troubles : an oral history by Fearghus Roulston is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast between 1977 and 1986. Interrogating the idea that punk was a non-sectarian subculture, it argues that the accounts of my interviewees suggest a more nuanced and complex relationship between the punk scene and Northern Irish society. Drawing on post-positivist oral history, the work of the Popular Memory Group and the cultural materialism of Raymond Williams, it considers how people’s memories of the punk scene have been shaped in the years since its zenith in the city and how they were shaped in the moment of the interview. Thinking of punk as a structure of feeling that is present in the oral history interview, the book suggests, is a way to draw out its relationship to structures of class, gender and sectarianism in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and its continuing affective and political legacies in the present.

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Author

Fearghus Roulston

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526152244

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts