Belfast punk and the Troubles : an oral history /

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Author / Creator:Roulston, Fearghus, author.
Imprint:Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2022]
©2022
Description:1 online resource (ix, 192 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13543948
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ISBN:9781526152244
152615224X
9781526152220
1526152223
1526152231
9781526152237
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed August 11, 2022).
Summary:"Belfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what it means to have been a punk - how punk unravels as a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what that unravelling means in the context of post-peace-process Northern Ireland. In doing so, it suggests a critical understanding of sectarianism, subjectivity and memory politics in the North, and argues for the importance of placing punk within the segregated structures of everyday life described by the interviewees. Adopting an innovative oral history approach drawing on the work of Luisa Passerini and Alessandro Portelli, the book analyses a small number of oral history interviews with participants in granular detail. Outlining the historical context and the cultural memory of punk, the central chapters each delve into one or two interviews to draw out the affective, imaginative and political ways in which punks and former punks evoke their memories of taking part in the scene. Through this method, it analyses the punk scene as a structure of feeling shaped through the experience of growing up in wartime Belfast." --
Other form:Print version: Roulston, Fearghus. Belfast punk and the Troubles. Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2022] 1526152231