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

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 W...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tompkin, Julian Gareth
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2430
_version_ 1848743952304308224
author Tompkin, Julian Gareth
author_facet Tompkin, Julian Gareth
author_sort Tompkin, Julian Gareth
building Curtin Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description 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.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T05:53:44Z
format Thesis
id curtin-20.500.11937-2430
institution Curtin University Malaysia
institution_category Local University
language English
last_indexed 2025-11-14T05:53:44Z
publishDate 2012
publisher Curtin University
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling curtin-20.500.11937-24302017-02-20T06:37:56Z New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations Tompkin, Julian Gareth 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. 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2430 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Tompkin, Julian Gareth
New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations
title New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations
title_full New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations
title_fullStr New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations
title_full_unstemmed New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations
title_short New frequencies from planet Perth: Punk rock and Western Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations
title_sort new frequencies from planet perth: punk rock and western australia's sesquicentenary celebrations
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2430