50 Years of Punk
30 January - 24 mins
Podcast Series
Newstalk Daily
50 years ago this year a new genre of music was created.
Suddenly there was this strange and raw sound. Angry looking young people were screaming about their dissatisfaction as to the state of their lot in life and the stale and seemingly hopeless future they had been handed by the establishment.
There were leather jackets, mohawks, safety pins and a whole lot more.
Punk had been born.
But a half a century on, what is its legacy?
Tara Duggan is joined by “Professor of Punk”, Cultural Sociologist, Creative Writer and Experimental Musician at University Limerick, Eoin Devereux
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