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    New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations

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    Authors
    Tompkin, Julian Gareth
    Date
    2012
    Supervisor
    Assoc. Prof. Steve Mickler
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    MPhil
    
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    School
    School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2430
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    Dislocated by both land and sea, Perth’s punk scene would nonetheless play a pivotal role in the development and global dissemination of punk rock in the 1970s. Set against the traditionalist context of Western Australia’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 1979, this study readdresses the birth of WA’s punk counterculture and its uneasy relationship with the State’s mainstream cultural narrative, as well as the genre’s enduring cultural legacy in Western Australia.

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