The film has gone down on record as one of the most revealing and insightful documentaries about the plight of musicians of color. Not until the punk timeline hits is a black influence mentioned in mainstream media timelines: Bad Brains. Bad Brains are by no stretch of the imagination one of the most influential punk bands ever. They brought reggae into the arena of punk music, and the sound and production style of reggae has continued to have an important impact on punk to this day.
The relationship between reggae and punk was clear; they both embraced songs of protest and oppression. Subsequent generations of punk music revealed in the importance of this relationship, birthing the entirety of ska. To this day, Hellcat records feature a variety of punk in addition to more purely reggae bands. Pure Hell , considered kindred spirits of The Dolls , burst onto the N.
Don Letts was credited for injecting the bouncing sounds of Jamaican reggae into the London punk scene, spinning reggae tunes on punk night at the Roxy, and acting as a videographer for The Clash. The punk scene took hold for an eternity, etching its way into the annals of rock history. While the punks boldly embraced women like Blondie, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, and Siouxsie Sioux , non-white musicians were still overlooked as the dynamic pioneers that they were.
In large part, they have been altered into a palatable story of white U. What cannot be ignored are these and other theories that there were greater factors at play. They very much subscribe to the Jim Crow notions of separation, of segregation, which define American culture through the most of the 20th century.
The influence of people of color in punk is no phenomenon of the past, rather an ever-evolving journey into what comes next. The documentary Afro-Punk premiered in and examined the challenges black youth who were deeply ensconced in a cultural scene that was always seen as white by outsiders. The documentary led to a cultural movement and, in , inspired the Brooklyn-based Afro-Punk Festival, now a yearly international event.
Related : Outside Lands Announces Lineup. By Sara Durnil Share. Sara Durnil Writer. You may also like. By the time people started calling it punk, the revolution had already started to spread around the globe. At nearly the same time as it crossed the ocean to the UK, punk spread to L.
We could have a lot of thrift stores and a lot of yard sales, church bazaars. We don't have the rain and snow and cold that you have in London or New York. We were very into that DIY thing. You could repurpose [clothes], you could cut them up and do things with them. We were stylists for each other. It really came out of dressing up every day and expressing yourself and being an artist. You could be an artist who expressed themselves visually from head to toe and also on stage. Or not—you could be a photographer or a graphic artist or a fan or whatever.
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