Ed Kuepper doing a guitar stance I have seen used from Stockholm to Hobart. To think it all began in Brisbane up on the Terrace.
Sir Bob Geldof once said that three bands altered the face of rock music in the 1970s: Sex Pistols, The Ramones and The Saints. History shows that The Saints' debut single (I'm) Stranded predated the debut singles by The Damned, Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, The Clash and all their other UK punk rock contemporaries.
I ordered Southern Theory today. The idea that so much academic discourse is dominated by the Northern Hemisphere super-centers of knowledge production is an appealing one. The idea that punk rock began in a run down inner-city semi-squat in Brisbane and not in the metropolis of London in 1977 when Malcolm MacLaren trained up some of the youngsters hanging out in his shop in the shadow of the recently imploded New York Dolls is also an interesting one. If we were to consider this as a historical fact it suits Connells' idea that
Yet the global South does produce knowledge and understanding of society. Through vivid accounts of critics and theorists, Raewyn Connell shows how social theory from the world periphery has power and relevance for understanding our changing world from al-Afghani at the dawn of modern social science, to Raul Prebisch in industrialising Latin America, Ali Shariati in revolutionary Iran, Paulin Hountondji in post-colonial Benin, Veena Das and Ashis Nandy in contemporary India, and many others.
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