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In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle finger. He didn't know it at the time, but the Sex Pistols' reputation had preceded his gesture, as young people in the "Second World" busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw's nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert, which brought together 100,000 "First World" UK punks and "Third World" Caribbean immigrants who contributed their cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War's "worlds."The first global narrative of punk,__Punk Crisis__examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War, blurring the boundaries between East and West, North and S

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Author

Raymond A. Patton

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190872380

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Music

Updated

2026-03-25