"Anarchy Around The World: Punk Goes Global"

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While the US & UK continue to claim the land rights, punk was an agent of change on a worldwide scale and its impact has affected all corners of the globe.

Forty years after it officially crash-landed in our midst, it’s easy to believe punk “sold out” its lofty original ideals, not least because its leading acts all eventually signed to major labels and played ball with The Man. 

Yet regardless of its shortcomings, punk still had a seismic global impact during the mid-to-late 70s and its legacy can still be felt in everything from its inherent DIY ethos to its (broadly) anti-sexist stance. 

However, while countless revisions of this flawed – yet exhilarating – period have since been published, they nearly always fix punk as a purely transatlantic phenomenon.

Há abordagem a tópicos como o punk na Austrália, na África do Sul, na Europa, nos países latino-americanos, na China, no Japão, na antiga URSS e termina com o legado deixado para o século XXI.

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