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Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history

By Fearghus Roulston

Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 208
    • Price: £85.00
    • Published Date: July 2022

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    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.

    Belfast punk and the Troubles is an intervention in Northern Irish historiography stressing the importance of history from below, and will be compelling reading for historians of Ireland and of punk, as well as those interested in innovative approaches to oral history.

    Reviews

    '...it is a great, distinctive account of the life in Northern Ireland in the second half of the twentieth century.'
    Marie Gemrichova, Charles University Prague'

    'In sum, this is an interesting and... elegantly written book that will appeal especially to scholars interested in the dog-eared history of Belfast punk and those who work on the subculture in other settings.'
    Irish Journal of Sociology

    'An oral history to add to the many, many accounts from The Troubles that give it a refreshing perspective whilst never shaking free from its context.'
    Oral History Journal

    Contents

    Introduction
    1 Alternative Ulster? Sectarianism, segregation and the punk scene
    2 The Belfast punk scene in cultural memory
    3 Epiphany, transgression and movement
    4 Making affective and political spaces
    5 Gender, respectability and emigration
    6 Collecting, storytelling and memory
    Conclusion
    Index

    Author

    Fearghus Roulston is a Lecturer of History at the University of Strathclyde

    Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history

    By Fearghus Roulston

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