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Sto caricando le informazioni... The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. (originale 2022; edizione 2022)di James Spooner (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. di James Spooner (2022)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. So so good! For all the marginalized kids, for all the disenfranchised kids, for all the punk kids - this is an ode to you! Thank you, James Spooner! ( ) James Spooner offers up an interesting perspective on punk music and race, but the pacing is slow and the book is so overstuffed with minutia from a single year of his day-to-day teen life and his many crushes, friendships, and parental woes that I was ultimately bored by the time he got around to making a point. I'm thinking about watching his Afro-Punk documentary though. very readable fictionalized (with composite characters) memoir starring a biracial skateboarding teen (Black bodybuilding dad, white mom) who moves back with his mom to small (mostly white) desert town of Apple Valley CA and starts getting into the punk scene, sometimes clashing with the white supremacist punk rock crowds. CW/TW: racism, fighting, drug abuse. Story, art, and layout are all 🔥!!! I usually struggle with keeping names and faces straight (IRL and in media) but Spooner manages to make his characters easily identifiable in his black and white drawings, each with a distinct, dynamic personality and background. A memoir set in the California high desert and in New York City: Spooner writes about discovering punk rock music, making friends with other Black and biracial kids, and navigating relationships with white supremacists. Spooner lives with his white mom, who loves him but doesn't understand what he's going through; his dad, in NY, isn't an active parent, but does inadvertently facilitate his introduction to the punk scene around St. Mark's Place and Tomkins Square Park. Filled with musical references (Black Flag, the Descendents, Wasted Youth, Buzzcocks, Bad Brains, etc.). The art is all in black and white, which initially made it difficult for me to keep all of the characters straight; I enjoyed the second half of the book (including the New York trip) more than the first. Quotes ...if you don't get excited, you can't be disappointed. (31) Rock 'n' roll is a Black American legacy. Punk rock is Black music. (89) Internalized racism can be a temporary means of survival. (136) We have always had to make choices around when we speak up and when we bite our tongues. (143) Certain books and films have helped many of us to define who we are. Finding them is like finding ourselves. (187) Punks have been pushing intersectional politics since the '80s, exemplified by the D.I.Y. venue Gilman Street's front door that reads "no racism, no sexism, no homophobia." Punk positioned me to listen. (226) Ironically, Blackness has always shed light on how whiteness has been catastrophic. (260) ...when a person shuts down one emotion, the mind responds by shitting down all emotions. We don't get to pick and choose. Stuffing years of anger deep inside hadn't given me space to process grief. (289) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining--new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a young Black punk who introduces him to the school outsiders--skaters, unhappy young rebels, caught up in the punk groundswell sweeping the country. A haircut, a few Sex Pistols, Misfits and Black Flag records later: suddenly, James has friends, romantic prospects, and knows the difference between a bass and a guitar. But this desolate landscape hides brutal, building undercurrents: a classmate overdoses, a friend must prove himself to his white supremacist brother and the local Aryan brotherhood through a show of violence. Everything and everyone are set to collide at one of the year's biggest shows in town... Weaving in the Black roots of punk rock and a vivid interlude in the thriving eighties DIY scene in New York's East Village, this is the memoir of a budding punk, artist, and activist"--Dust jacket flap. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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